| #1 is that their ideas about politics are not the product of rational thought and a concern for the common good. Their ideas are, very simply, the product of burning anger, a sense of perpetual hurt and victimhood. And that is why they have become so much like the left. The author is imputing motives to his opponents, which perpetuates the 'people who disagree with me are evil conspiracists' mindset. Politics should be a debate about outcomes and means to outcomes undertaken by well intentioned people. Once you lose that and go off into wacky conspiracies, you are lost to the debate. |