July 10, 2005:
The narcissism of "liberal" politics.
Capitalism is the "best" system our species has yet known. Reality is the greatest possible good for the greatest number of people. History is the march of consciousness evolving toward some unspoken teleology. Politics is the support of or the resistance to that progress. Conservativism is not merely wrong-headed, it's stupid and, as irrationality, it can't be analyzed.
So that the response to electoral defeat is to convene living room groups of white, well-to-do suburbanites, to drink brandy, eat cheese, and reassure each other that, despite the fact that more than half of the country chooses to reject their advice, they remain nevertheless culturally, intellectually, and morally superior.