re: #59 Anymouse 🌹

The alternative is admitting they’re wrong.

That’s hard enough for anyone to do, but when you also hold the tenet that “Conservatism can’t fail, it can only be failed,” it’s impossible.

That also explains why no one to the left of a current politician can challenge someone in a GOP primary.

I don’t think it’s admitting being wrong per se that’s the problem, it’s the connected realization that they’ve been complicit for years, in most cases their entire adult lives that’s presents the emotional hurdle.

Subconsciously they’re terrified of how that admission will injure their egos and wound their sense of self worth.