[nathanbedford]

We are not dealing here with a person who is misinformed, we are not dealing here with a person who is of below average intelligence, we are not dealing here with a person who is uneducated, we are dealing with a pathology which infects much of our culture and dominates the administration of Barack Obama and the Democrat party.

The pathology is one that is immune to reason, argument, or dialogue because it has nothing to do with reason, rather it is a soul sickness, a mental illness, akin to what one sees in a cult. This lady does not ride on the back of a motorcycle and sport tattoos but her mental processes are those of a bitch for the Bloods and Crips.

Our job is not to find ways to reason with people like this but find ways to breach the mental moats which immunize them from common sense and reason, much as a psychiatrist would try to break through the metal shields which remove a neurotic from reason. It is pointless to reason with a drunk and it is hopeless to reason with the member of a cult. It is besides the point to call them stupid or uneducated.

They require intervention not negotiation. But our society shrinks from such interventions because we believe in liberty even the right to be wrong. But we pay an awful price for our principles because we render ourselves impotent in the face of an existential threat to our way of life. This cancer is metastasizing and infecting greater and greater portions of our society but we have not found a way to treat it, for it requires treatment not debate. One cannot reason with a member of a cult, that person's sanity can only be restored with an intervention and with isolation from the cult.

We conservatives persist in believing that because we have reason and common sense on our side we should prevail in a civil society. The cult changes all of that. The psychology of collectivism is, in effect, a cult whose whole methodology is to substitute ideology for reason, emotion for judgment, evil for good, right for wrong.

[zeestephen]

Excellent comment.

[2ndDivisionVet]

And it is a death cult, a religious cult and a cargo cult, all three combined. It will be almost impossible to defeat, and in conjunction with Islam it may very well destroy us, to utter annihilation.

[jonrick46]

Your insightful piece is spot on! This type of political argument that Jasmine Rand employs is at the heart of the Alinsky Method. It is the manipulation of argument based upon emotion that makes it so difficult to defeat. It is a method so well internalized in those who use it, that it does take on a cult type presence. They are the useful fools who mix up the political poison for the Kool Aid drinkers. In their world, wrong is right and the ends justifies the means. They live in the fantasy world on the Unicorn Farm.

[Political Junkie Too]

That, or she is strategically saying this because it suits her needs in the Brown case.

-PJ