Comments on: I have to admit. https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/03/i-have-to-admit/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:50:17 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mcfly https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/03/i-have-to-admit/#comment-30835 mcfly Wed, 04 Jun 2014 17:47:54 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45300#comment-30835 When it became obvious that the Iraq war was a complete sham, a criminal undertaking on an international scale, and that my country--at my urging, no less--was slaughtering countless thousands of individuals...well, it doesn't make looking in the mirror much fun. It's a tough one, but if a conservative has even the tiniest seed of doubt about the right-wing worldview, the truth might eventually work it's way in. The trouble, of course, is that doubt--like compromise, or dialog--is a conservative sin. The conservative universe is far too small for such nonsense. Better dead than well-read, as they say. When it became obvious that the Iraq war was a complete sham, a criminal undertaking on an international scale, and that my country–at my urging, no less–was slaughtering countless thousands of individuals…well, it doesn’t make looking in the mirror much fun.

It’s a tough one, but if a conservative has even the tiniest seed of doubt about the right-wing worldview, the truth might eventually work it’s way in. The trouble, of course, is that doubt–like compromise, or dialog–is a conservative sin. The conservative universe is far too small for such nonsense.

Better dead than well-read, as they say.

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