"… there's always been that wholly disturbing thing about devout liberals, one feels it like a cloying presence whenever talking with them… it's that off-putting impression that their sense of identity is irrevocably, inseparably tied not to simply being right, but to believing absolutely that they're right and thus anyone or anything that might suggest otherwise is justifiably scorned and ridiculed… which, by the way, is why the mocking scorn and ridicule that characterizes so much of liberal talk is seen as legitimate colloquy by them… to me, thinking one is right denotes a very different existential starting point than an absolute belief in the truth of one's claims... the former implies debate and argument and the possibility of being wrong… but the latter is the assumption of a perfection and thus the necessary denial of all who fall outside of that perfection for fear they may introduce doubt… idealist systems are not big fans of doubt..."
