[alnitak]

You know, when I think about many of the views and attitudes that have been expressed by the left I cannot help but think how divorced from reality they have become. Yet they continue to hold these views, despite being intelligent people. Why?

A quote from Frank Herbert's "Dune" comes to mind: "When a person has worked to become one thing, he will destroy himself rather than become its opposite".

We're dealing with a group of people that cannot face admitting that their entire worldview is just plain wrong, it would destroy them psychologically.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The religion of the left is ideology and politics. A matter of faith not reason. It allows them to believe themselves better and more enlightened than the mass of humanity.

[Cacique]

You hit the nail on the head. These idiots can't live in the real world as the rest of us. They have an extreme fear that their fantasies are not real.

BTW, welcome to FreeRepublic..