re: #479 iossarian

I’m beginning to think that a lot of Republicans have backed themselves into a philosophical corner. So much of their platform is now logically inconsistent, the only way they can keep any kind of coherence is to basically blame everything on evil liberals (either that, or abandon the whole edifice, which I can absolutely appreciate requires immense intellectual courage).

And that approach paints them farther and farther into the corner since it is essentially making a greater and greater emotional investment in that “your” group is right by demonizing the “other” group. Which makes a person admitting they are wrong more difficult. And the emotional debt makes the intellectual decision all the harder.