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I can understand your confusion. I used to be confused why their heads didn’t explode too. Let me try to explain. I think first though we have to get past the idea of imagining others to be as thoughtful or kind or motivated by the same values as ourselves. But for a head to explode, it has to be filled with something beyond capacity, and you’ll observe that this can’t possibly be the case with leftists, who have enough trouble with a single idea. However, there are slow-motion implosions and deflations going on around you all the time, I would bet. Observe the bewilderment among them about what to us is predictable, for example a scandle-prone, secretive, and suspicious head of state who had claimed to be instituting the most open and honest administration ever seen, or the recent launch of the so-called Affordable Care Act, which is neither affordable, nor caring. They have no room in their heads for reality, often, because they’ve had to let go of it to fit the ideology in, and that’s generally the last thing they have left. When that goes, they are briefly worse than the zombie-like status they’re in just before it. Some learn how to walk again, slowly, step by step, but by no means all.