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Originally posted by G Sharp
Thanks for validating my point. The conservative answer is nice and short and easy to digest. The liberal answer is long......process driven... lots of positioning. In the post 9/11 mindset this is deemed wishy washy crap--you're either with us or you're not, you're either up or you're down, [fill in whatever false dichotomies float your boat here]. That's the conservative appeal. Truth... in a can! 
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Sometimes it's long and process-driven, sometimes it's knee-jerk. There are idiots in all walks of life, my pedigree chum. For every Dittohead there's a BUSH=HITLER rabid lefist; doesn't mean either of them have done their homework.
Because you see conservative viewpoints as overly simplistic groupthink doesn't make it so. Can the Left take a really hard look at itself - the consequences of its failures, the credibility of its critiques, the viability of its goals? Can it begin to shed the arrogant cloak of self-righteousness that elevates it above its own history and makes it impervious to the lessons of experience?