Koolaid, Anyone?

What do the Kansas school board , the victims of the Jonestown mass suicide and the US State Department have in common? They are all members of that dangerous breed of self righteous, true believers that lack any sense of the ironic or hypocritical, those who have traded in their empathy, even their senses of humor for a determined and supremely confident faith. They respect those who "stick to their guns", even if they ARE wrong. Like the new Pope, they don't buy any of this relativism ( not only was Darwin wrong, so was Einstien!) fighting off even the notion of doubt with strong Belief. To stand in another mans shoes or to try to see through another mans eyes is to doubt that ones own perception is the Truth.

It is easy for us on the Left to simply think of reactionaries as confused but they are far from it, frighteningly, they lack that particular capability. Confusion means doubt, and doubt, as Abraham showed,and true believers are taught at a young age, must be annihilated.

Asked if the US might not be viewed as a nuclear bully by other nations they look perplexed and answer "of course not, the US is a responsible nation". Ask if it is hypocritical to ignore Israels illegal nuclear arsenal while threatening other nations who have nuclear ambitions they answer"of course not, Israel is a responsible nation." Ask the Kansas school board what credible evidence undermines evolution and they answer "it is just a theory ,not a fact" and theory implies doubt. If you could have asked one of the members of Jim Jones' little prayer group in Guyana if he had any doubts he was doing the right thing, if he wasn't just a little worried he might be brainwashed he would have answered "here, have some kool-aid."