“[People] believe what they believe, they support who or what they support, and no amount of reason or evidence is going to change that.”
Bingo: “The Triblocal.com kind of citizen journalism has at least one conspicuous defect—nothing gets written about unless somebody feels like doing the writing.”
Comments on “Sympathy for the Devil?” by Harold Henderson, January 24
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Rick Perlstein: “I have always admired conservatives for their political idealism, acumen, stalwartness, and devotion. I have also admired some of their ideas—especially the commitment to distrusting grand social schemes, and the deep sense of the inherent flaws in human nature.”
And look at the current subprime mess and tell me that the stock market isn’t a taxpayer-subsidized social scheme!
Political idealism? No, they are political opportunists who craft their political ideology to meet their self-interest. Distrust grand social schemes? How about capitalism, free markets, America as the sole superpower, Rove’s one-party system, government-enforced social conservatism, and on and on. Above all else, conservatives want everyone to be just like them and think they can achieve that by force.
(3) Conservatives, in the main, cannot be reasoned with. They aren’t stupid (for the most part), they’re just hopelessly misguided cowards.
