To be clear, I have some sympathy for the rubes - as people. But I have nothing beyond the basic respect for their humanity.
When ignorance is a choice, and that choice means you've decided that being a contrarian dick is preferable to being a decent guy who cares about something beyond his own animal instincts - then you've made it all but impossible for me to have any regard for you at all.
That said -
And that's the magic formula for "conservatives". For the most part, in the quest for political power, they've completely abandoned their sense of shame. But as long as they can count on everybody else maintaining a small nugget of honor - a willingness to be introspective - then they believe they can flip the script on us for just about anything.
We've all heard it a thousand times: "Where's that famous Liberal Tolerance?"
Just remember Popper's Paradox. We need to guard against becoming tolerant of intolerance.
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