The art of self-deception
Like any fair-minded person, I regularly try to detach myself from my opinions to analyze my thinking and detect where bias is creeping in. It is only the clueless moron who plows ahead in such a self-righteous stupor that he believes he can't ever be wrong, and critical thinking ends once you have arrived at a conclusion. How did I reach that decision? Why do I object to this policy? What's at the heart of this problem, and who is best equipped to resolve it? This is why I choose to be conservative: the Left today is dominated by assumptions that dare not be questioned, and platitudes that dare not be abandoned.
On this theme, Joseph Rago offers us a wonderful case study in self-deception. When an ideology continues to defend the indefensible long after the fall of its capital, is it any wonder it is willing to pardon the guilty and convict the innocent?
