[BroJoeK]

dsc: "And that is the error to which you cling like Linus to his security blanket.
I don’t find it embarrassing though; I find it contemptible, like any other refusal to confront unwelcome facts."

But you have no facts at all, welcome or unwelcome -- zero, zip, nada, no facts -- only your Lost Cause mythology and that was a pack of lies from the beginning.
Which I'm certain you truly know, but for reasons similar to religion, will never admit, right?

[dsc]

“But you have no facts at all, welcome or unwelcome”

Let me correct that and turn it into a true statement: I have no facts that you do not wrongly, compulsively deny, just like a leftard denying that cutting taxes invigorates an economy, that higher taxes produce a wider gap between rich and poor, and that it is wrong to kill a preborn baby.

And don’t kid yourself—on this issue your mental processes are identical with theirs.

That is why I am bowing out of this squabble. The more facts that confront you, the more you dig in your heels and squeeze your mind shut. There’s just no profit in it for an honest man.