Even if ALL the States joined this action, they still wouldn't concede that they screwed up. A principle factor in even BEING on the far left to begin with is the ability to embrace your ideals IN SPITE OF Reality, not BECAUSE OF it.
I wrote along that line to a good friend of mine a week or two ago in email, and I repeat it here for your consumption.
IMO, “in spite of” must be the most succinct description of the gist of the leftist argument on every issue.
spite(n) - petty ill will: a malicious, usually small-minded desire to harm or humiliate
So, then:
“in spite of” – to act with petty, malicious ill will so as to impugn, humiliate, and evade accountability to known, applicable facts.
THAT, right there, describes with destructive accuracy, the true nature of every leftist argument I’ve ever known.
I should note, too, that I chose “evade” over “avoid” since it carries the implication of having illegitimately gotten out of something; as in “evading” v. “avoiding” taxation.
There's really nothing for Democrats (true leftists, actually) to "figure out"; their entire weltanschauung obviates the need, for it embraces the conclusion, first, then chooses to selectively accept or ignore facts only on the basis of whether they support the already-embraced conclusion.
This is why you will continue to see "OMG we're gonna die!" articles about "climate change" even though -- according to a recent Rasmussen poll -- 65% of America has pretty much blown off the whole global warming idea as either nonthreatening, or an outright scam.
As in that case, so in this one: the facts, and the numbers of people rallying to the facts, simply DO NOT MATTER to these people. They will continue to think what they already think even if the entire Earth rises in dissent.
Honestly, I think leftism is a deep-seated psychosis -- a state of selective denial founded upon the unhealthy fear-driven acceptance of certain ideas -- freedom from which very nearly requires Divine Intervention.
The fear of some scenario eventuating drives the embrace of an idea that, if true, would prevent that fearful scenario from coming to pass. That, in turn, drives adherence to facts that support the embraced idea; and ignorance, or active rejection -- often with vituperative -- of facts that oppose the embraced idea.
The obvious defect in this selective "cherry-picking" of facts is the more amplified by two elements: the irrational nature of the fear aroused by the dreaded scenario; the actual falsehood of the embraced idea.
Thus we see the liberal mind, time and time again, actively shouting down fact, because it conflicts with an idea that is false, but that -- if it were true -- would prevent the development of some improbable scenario about which they harbor irrational fear.
That mental landscape knows nothing of Reason.
Great analysis. Leftists can be compared favorably to adolescents IMO. The adults(conservatives) in this unholy war against time honored values had better begin laying down the law, and soon.
Nicely worded.