I only quoted a short bit - Pat has a lot of interesting things to say.
The only right-wing types I know that are this incorrigible are the religious types. Their fallback position is always the Bible or some religious precept or philosophy or moral code etc. Which translates into, back them into a logical corner, and they'll just say God doesn't like it, so there. Further efforts at persuasion are pointless, because you're a heathen and the devil has you fooled. Get thee behind me!
Ok, a little exaggeration. But that's at the heart of it. No matter how deep you dig, they'll always have the last word, because it's not truth they're searching for - they began the discussion with all the truth they'll need.
Liberals pose a similar front, and I find it much more confounding. At least, a religious fundie knows he's out there, his views may be unpopular, and he might be the only one in the world with them. That's part and parcel of being religious - I know, used to be just like that once.
But liberals are more difficult inasmuch as - well - their views are *right*. Case in point, the article Pat wrote - Ward Churchill - oooh that's a bunch of right-wingnuts trying to silence free speech. Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks about inherenct genetic differences between men and women - *HE* should be fired, because, well, that's sooooooo wrong!
The fallback position of the liberal is -well - we're right. Vote for Kerry? No? The election is a fraud! It isn't? Well, then America is *wrong* - time to move to Canada. (Please, do, and take your liberal *vote* with you). The mantra I've heard more often than any from liberals is, if you don't agree, you either don't understand OR - you're an idiot, a redneck, a bigot, a racist, blah-blah-blah.
I don't understand the thought process. I was just reading an article about how this group has decided to "out" gay conservatives, or, failing that, "out" gay *children* of noted conservatives. I may have missed something, but I kind of thought that this was wrong, and a gross invasion of privacy no matter who did it. But to out someone's *children*? That's vicious.
