DEMOCRATS: THE ANGRY CAVEWOMEN BLAMING THE CAVEMEN FOR EVERY DAMNED THING
In the grim theater of American politics the actors on the left and the right still perform their perennial roles with psychotic fervor, but one must observe a peculiar asymmetry -- to the conservative eye, the progressive left appears as a chorus of deranged, hysterical, unmoored from reality, and perpetually aggrieved mental patients as if afflicted by some collective malady that defies diagnosis. Yet this perception, far from being mere partisan sniping, reveals a deeper fracture in human cognition and temperament. Thomas Sowell, that venerable economist from Harlem's hardscrabble streets, who evolved from Marxist sympathies to conservative erudition, posits that our political battles stem not from mere policy disagreements but from fundamental "visions" of human nature—constrained and unconstrained. In his sadly invisible-to-the-Left’s master work A Conflict of Visions , he dissects the ideological origins of political strife with a philosopher's scalpe...
