Tom Teves: "I Have VOTED Republican My Whole Life,...“I’ll NEVER Vote Republican Again — EVER!"

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13. I have noticed this too.

There is something defective in the conservative brain that makes them unable to feel any empathy for anyone except themselves or immediate family members.

We all know that republicans hate gays, right? Not dick cheney. Why not? BECAUSE HIS DAUGHTER IS GAY.

We all know that republicans consider waterboarding to be a mere annoyance, and certainly not torture, right? Yet every right-winger who subjected himself to it to prove how benign it was came out saying "I was wrong, it IS torture." Why? BECAUSE IT HAPPENED TO THEM PERSONALLY. (And, the minds of other conservatives were not changed one bit as a result. After all, it didn't happen to THEM.)

Now we have the guy in this article, who apparently was fine with all the horrors and vileness of republicans for years, but now must immediately leave the party forever. Why? Because the meanness and cruelty of the party WAS DIRECTED AT HIS OWN WIFE instead of at some abstract, non-existent "taker" woman!

This all suggests that the only way to get conservatives to see the truth is to expose it to each right-wing nutjob individually in terms of someone he truly cares about, specifically himself. But this will take too long! I think just waiting for them to die off is still the better course.