Reply #13: Being so sure... [View All]

[neoblues]

even when alone in a dark and unfamiliar place they might suspect they really aren't so sure... is one big reason they have difficulty changing course. It's certainly one of W's big problems (uh... stay the course... stay the course... uh... stay the course, and so on).

Seems that many of the individuals who fit those behavioral and intellectual developmental symptoms have been "infected", so to speak, with some counter-productive thought virus (meme). Often it's Religion, sometimes it's just the perverted form of politics Republicans have been practicing for a decade and more. Sadly, short of interrment at a specialized mental facility and 'deprogrammed', it's highly likely they're unreachable. Alas.

One other way they're liable to be reached... and that's if faced with true suffering and strife such as we'll experience if our economy collapses to the degree we'd call a "great depression". That just might open their eyes as well as result in their developing a real compassion for the others who selflessly help them through the hard times. It would be better if we dont have to experience this option (duh). Still, the M$M does nothing to stimulate thinking or even acknowledge the existence of questions nor their answers (ahh, there's that infamous Colbert phrase: "Everybody knows that Reality has a Liberal Bias...", even though the Media does not--no matter how hard Republicans try to believe that it does).