[William Terrell]

. . .and conservatives have also made their indefensible errors of commission and omission, sometimes even abetting the unwise liberals in their legislative delusions.

The war on drugs is a premier example.

[fporretto]

We all tend to set aside our rationality about things that evoke our strong sympathy or our strong revulsion, William. The War on Drugs is one such. Still, conservatives are in the majority in calling for a re-examination of drug prohibition; there are very few liberals in the ranks of the decriminalization movement.

Conservatives have the edge over liberals in that, generally, they're willing to assess evidence that contradicts their beliefs in candor and honesty. Not all, but most.

Liberals' beliefs are more robustly protected by the "fact-proof screen" (Eric Hoffer), because their beliefs tend to be a consequence of a vision of themselves as more moral and caring than those who disagree with them: to use Thomas Sowell's phrase, "a vision of differential rectitude." Therefore, to admit that they were wrong involves lowering themselves from an exalted moral plane to equality (or worse) with the rest of us, which is for many of them unthinkable, a debasement not to be borne.

There's no cure yet... but there is hope.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[Eric in the Ozarks]

Or, adopting a give away project from the Libs and doing 2/3rds, as if to say we "saved" money.