The problem the left has is that their ideas have now left bumper stickers for codified law, and consequences are becoming glaringly apparent. These consequences are easiest to see in the economy.
This is the fourth “recovery summer” and this time people don't need to experience it to know what's coming. What Americans have been told they were seeing and what they were seeing are two different realities-one created for them and one actual reality they can see. They instinctively sense now they've been lied to, perhaps worse they sense the deliberate ruse, and that's the problem Obama and the rest have in the 2012 election.
Despite the poor Republican nominee, despite the voter fraud and the protection money/donations the Democrats will garner, the electoral bludgeoning that's coming will be the long-deserved comeuppance the left has earned.
In order to understand your average liberal sheeperal, (not the real communists at the top who use the sheeperals)
all you have to understand is that they are continually trying to justify the lie of “I’m a good person”.
>> [R]eason must be trumped by emotion-based beliefs. The methodology involves ignoring and explaining away consequences. <<
Good analysis. Seems to me, moreover, that it applies also to the small band of FReepers who are now telling us that a Romney presidency would be worse than four more years of the Obama administration.