[Zeppo]

Several others have alluded to a major factor - so many on the left are continually agitated by the cognitive dissonance that springs from desperately trying to maintain a false belief system in the face of overwhelmingly contradictory information. The plain input from their own senses and the nagging insistence of their own intellects constantly bombard them with incontrovertible evidence that their cherished worldview is dead wrong, yet they are compelled to deny what is undeniable by powerful forces such as groupthink and social pressure and a desperate need to convince themselves of their own enlightenment, self-worth and righteousness.

Try to imagine the maddening conflicts raging in the mind of a rabid feminist working overtime to excuse the clearly misogynist behavior of a Bill Clinton or a Ted Kennedy. Imagine the mental contortions that must be necessary to simultaneously believe that fighting al Quaeda terrorists in Afghanistan is good and legitimate, but fighting al Quaeda terrorists in Iraq is evil and illegal. Can you even conceive (no pun intended) of the mental gymnastics that you have to go through to convince yourself that eating meat or killing or injuring animals is immoral, yet aborting a human fetus is simply a 'choice'? Or believing that sodomy and abortion are clearly protected by penumbras emanating from the text of the Constitution, yet the plain text of the second amendment means something, anything other than what it actually says. And so on...

[Squawk 8888]

The list is endless- the contradiction that veritable screams at me is how the feminist lefties can claim that fighting the Taliban is a bad thing. The only way to reconcile that is to completely deny the overwhelming evidence of their attitude towards women.