Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Loughner Belongs to the Insane Party

The swiftness with which Jared Lee Loughner's mass murder was blamed on the Tea Party Right was deeply revealing.

Conservatives are often accused of possessing a black-and-white worldview that is impervious to inconvenient facts and thus unsusceptible to revision. The difference between the Left and Right, however, is not that one does and one does not possess a sophisticated worldview, but that each finds nuance and simplicity in different places."

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