re: #96 The Ghost of a Flea

Which begs the question of why conservatives would take issue with the interpretation of 14th and 15th amendments handed down by the Warren Court and/or the Legislature of the Civil Rights Era. There’s bloody reams of material about the constitutionality of the CRLs by some extremely fine legal minds.

If you need a “conservative” to explain the logic of the CR legislation to you in partisan terms so it’s digestable, you might be a partisan ass.

Lots of people on both sides of the aisle have an auto-reject mechanism that makes them hostile to arguments advanced by the political opposition. Goddamnfrank has used the Newspeak conventions of George Orwell’s 1984 to call such mechanisms Teamthink, and it is strong force in society. People who are strongly political get attached to their faction and don’t want to weaken it. Also at work is the powerful human need to belong.