[kennedyd]

Hardcore leftist ideology does seem to have a quasi-religious feel to it insofar as it is almost completely insulated from facts. You can quote data to a leftist for as long as you like demonstrating the repeated failures of past social experiments, but nothing will come of it. There is always an excuse to the effect that some person, or society, was to blame for the failure. It never seems to occur to them that their basic assumptions about human nature and the way the world works may be flawed.

[concerned about politics]

. It never seems to occur to them that their basic assumptions about human nature and the way the world works may be flawed.

Yep. Some liberal got my e-mail address from a distant family member, and suggested I check out how great Dean is doing. WELL.......You KNOW that got me going!
I e-mailed facts to discredit everything she said - back and forth for a while - until the liberal was incoherant, and her thought processess were irratic. I couldn't even make out what she was attempting to say. It was jumbled.
It ended with: "You're mean, mean, mean."