I Think I Finally Get Why Them Wing Nuts Think That All Dems/Libs are Commie Pinko Trotskities.

And I admit this is nothing new, but I think I finally know, as in understand, how and why they act like people who are totally driven by ideology, instead of facts, reality, or the process of reasoning.

First you have to recognize that if you are an Extremist Right Winger, you are not allowed to see shades of grey on policy issues. Conservatism is autocratic and despotic dogma (except when hypocritical, and well, they just ignore the man behind the curtain, so to say . . )

Next, you need to know that everything should be expressed in black and white, usually false choice, either this or that extremist . . . for lack of a better word . . . reasoning.

Can't have moral clar-i-ty if ya gots damn new-ounces, or critta-kal thinkin', Lawd no!

And ya, these peeps are way the fuck far out on the right wing. And they think not only they are the good guys, and they are right, but they believe there is no way they can be wrong about anything. And as they see the Red Menace, Commie Pinkos as the other end of their false choice, black and white, non real reality, that sets up the following.

So ANYTHING not close to their way of thinking HAS TO BE closer to Red Menace, Commie Pinkos kind of thinking, even if all they see is small movement away from their excessively right wing ideology. That then equals motion towards the general direction of that other pole, Red Menace, Commie Pinkos. So why bother with degrees and nuance, or reality, when you can just dismiss anything two baby steps to the left of your ideology as Red Menace, Commie Pinkos type stuff?

Ya, it is a thought process devoid of anything remotely resembling reasonable thinking.

But I am not saying it is reasonable. I am only saying, I get it, finally, how they get to that conclusion.

That is all I am saying.