Frum dims his lights & admits GOP must come to their senses

[zipplewrath]

21. To be generous

In their mind they actually think they're right. Well, alot of them anyways that I know. But there is no small portion of "magical thinking". There is also a healthy dose of "faith based" reasoning as well to much of conservatisim. It's the "it should work this way so it does work this way" kind of reasoning. It's not that liberals can't be guilty of this kind of reasoning (all it takes is education....). However, over the long run, liberals are susceptible to being proven wrong by history. The conservatives consistently and repeatedly will hold to a position, DECADES after they have been proven wrong. Which is why you still get the wackos talking about how the voting rights act was wrong, or Brown vs The Board of Education or something. It's Buchannan saying that we backed the wrong side in WWII. It's Coulter saying that McCarthy was right. Their solution to being proven wrong is to blame the facts.

30 years of creeping conservatism has caused a huge collapse in the middle class, the loss of middle class tax revenues, which has led to the unanticipated reductions in FICA income. But you wont' even find them defending these outcomes, much less explaining them. They'll merely deny them, along with climate science and evolution theory.