tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177848353559234331.post1895842236734969549..comments2023-08-29T05:25:21.925-04:00Comments on Sign Sans Signified: Just Like LincolnSign Sans Signifiedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05517112691932613138noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177848353559234331.post-512932666963047642009-01-16T15:54:00.000-05:002009-01-16T15:54:00.000-05:00The inability to admit a mistake is a more than a ...The inability to admit a mistake is a more than a character flaw. <BR/><BR/>Rationalization and justification of abject failure, and denial of what is verifiably obvious, borders on psychopathology.<BR/><BR/>Neo-cons are blindly loyal, and place that loyalty above all other values.<BR/>Once convinced, all evidence to the contrary creates a cognitive dissonance that cannot be reconciled internally, so the think-tank mouthpieces, their columnists, bloggers and TV talking heads continue to repeat the same comforting, Rain Man-esque nervous ticks about big government, liberal media, and how they will be “vindicated” by history. <BR/><BR/>While the body bags fill, while the corpses float by, while their economic house of cards collapses around them, like some uber-Eveready bunny, they drone on and on and on…<BR/><BR/>In its most extreme, blind loyalty takes the form of a Nuremberg rally. <BR/>Surely, I'm not the only one who’s noticed the similarity between those fist-pumpers chanting USA! USA! USA! and stadiums filled with Sieg-Heiling average German citizens.<BR/><BR/>Every time I read one of these apologist fantasies, every time Rash Blowhard, Bill O’spareme, or M’Anne Coulter opens their gaping maws, I keep thinking about the Nazi character in Mel Brook's The Producers, who, years after the war, still thinks der Fuehrer got a raw deal from the press.<BR/><BR/>Nothing to see here, move along…Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11705929308827189968noreply@blogger.com