I clicked on this article hoping for a more meaningful discussion of why people reject logic and rational thought in favor of mystical thinking and belief in Santa Claus (in the form of a government that provides everything to everybody). I didn’t get that. In fact, I’m going to have to disagree with most of the author’s arguments. There *is* a place for regulation within the conservative world view.
The issue with regulation is that too many totalitarians want to regulate everything, instead of just those things that directly affect public health and safety. How a meat packer conducts his operations should be directly up to him. But it is absolutely reasonable to regulate the quality of his products such that they are reasonably free of microbial contamination, contain the claimed ingredients, and are safe to eat.
This author never did speculate why some people become loony leftists. I would love to better understand that issue, since the first step in solving a problem is correctly defining it.
Speculations are just that, so why should he?
The communists have influenced a whole generation in our schools, media and govt. to believe all they do. Have you noticed the arrogance involved whenever they express their beliefs? They view themselves as morally superior in their caring for others and in their assessment of things and they cannot be reasoned with because they are only emotional. They are demoralized and only the most intellectually honest among them can ever see the truth. This is the reason they have been calling us fearmongers and racists even when the facts show quite the contrary. They trust their sources and no facts even make a dent in what they believe. Try speaking against what they believe they need in the form of govt. welfare (such as Obamacare) and you become an enemy very quickly. They feel the need to control everyone because they believe they know better than you what is best and it is all about the collective and not the individual.
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt has some interesting thoughts about why people believe ad they do and are resistant to revision based on reason. Having what we already believe confirmed by events is almost like a feel good drug to the brain. People seek confirmation rather than truth and so that which seems to confirm is embraced, whilst anything which would go contrary to already held beliefs is discounted. According to the author we are emotional beings rather than rational. He takes this too far in my opinion. Still, there some very interesting roundtables in this book.