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Wow! Very clearly stated.
alcaray — (archived)

From Robert's fine post:

"The prominence dodge is based on the perennial and ludicrous Rightist belief that your politicians are above politics, but all other politicians have no principles and simply devote themselves to sabotaging Rightists. Only the other guys are partisans. Which, in turn, is based on the fundamental Rightist conceit that the world revolves around you--that only Rightists have principles and everyone else merely reacts to them."

I've been dancing around this for a year now. But I've never come up with a description so simple and essential.

To be fair, this sort of view is not limited to conservatives, though they do excel at it. I would expect better from Tom (who is obviously an intellegent guy). But he seems to have a blind-spot about this the size of a... well, a political party.

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