re: #46 Decatur Deb

Mistaking the MB arises from no data, bad data, immaturity, wishful thinking—all normal ways of being wrong. UNIONS?

I’d argue that mistaking the MB also comes from the desire some liberals have to show conservatives as wrong and paranoid. Therefore, if conservatives claim Group X is dangerous, some liberals will want to disagree simply because they want the conservatives to be wrong.

The extremist variant of anti-union sentiment* is born of a dislike of anything on the left (unions support the part of the left, even though many unions are not leftist themselves). That sort of hater tries to paint the other side in the worst possible light to validate his feelings.

*I’m not a big fan of unions, though I try to confine my criticism to the facts and I do firmly acknowledge a legitimate role for unions in the private sector. I call my own type of view “sane skepticism of unions”.