Reality Is Unbending

     …but human nature can be pretty stiff too:

     It’s not that [California left-liberals] can’t learn. They’re not stupid in the sense that they don’t understand that the people they’re voting for are blithering idiots. It’s that human nature prevents them from accepting the fact that they’ve been wrong so that they can change. They are emotionally invested in the liberal project that they grew up in, and to vote against it now would require introspection and an admission that everything they believed in was baloney. Most of them can’t do that. Most of them won’t do that. And nothing’s going to change.

     You’d think that the wildfires consuming the Palisades would have awakened Los Angeles liberals to the utter failure of liberal politics. Then again, you’d have thought that having their city and much of their state overrun by illegal aliens and homeless bums would have taught them something, too. And what about having to pay the highest state and local taxes of any district in America? No, that didn’t get their attention either. Indeed, much of liberal politics has been devoted to end-running, if not overturning, the famous Proposition 13 that sharply limited California’s ability to impose property taxes on its residents.

     Kurt Schlichter has pinned it: Liberalism is not a political stance but a religion. Apostates must prepare to be shunned by their fellow-believers. That’s a high price to pay for one’s sins. Not many are willing to pay it, especially given the emotional price of admitting that one has been so wrong for so long.

     It’s a sermonette the rest of America should take seriously.