It is what Jerome a Paris recently called The Reality War. He’s not alone in his frustration. The progressive blogosphere says it in a million ways and places every day – that wingnuts don’t listen. Wingnuts don’t budge. They just repeat their catechism of talking points, and keep going. No manner or amount of facts or flawless logic will lead a wingnut one centimeter closer to functioning on the basis of proven facts, or reacting according to reality. Nope. They live in their own world. They stand impervious to reality, facts, and even to blowback and bitter experience by the bucketful.
And, this is frustrating, depressing, and hopeless as hell to witness and to realize. It’s like rolling a rock uphill, only to see it land back at the bottom again, every damned time.
You may well conceive a child, and raise her to voting age confirmed in progressive and humanitarian views, faster than you can convert a True Believer to those same views. Indeed, your newborn child has a serious head start on the adult wingnut.
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