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Cocooned Liberals Are Unprepared for Political Debate

Henry VIII Wrote: May 24, 2012 2:02 PM
ClayK, I am not counting my chickens just yet, but that doesn't change the fact that the founders never intended for the government to supply health care....that doesn't not fit into their description of limited government.
It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforces them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972, the movie critic Pauline Kael said it was odd that Richard Nixon was winning the election, because everyone she knew was for George McGovern.

Kael wasn't clueless about the rest of America. She was just observing that her own social circle was politically parochial.

The rest of us have increasingly sought out comfortable cocoons, too. Journalist...

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