There are very few people on the left who really understand how the right
> thinks at all, or even takes the right seriously as thinkers.
And vice versa, no? Doesn't each grouping of ideologues always imagine its own opposition to consist entirely of homogeneous idiots? Think of the right's paranoid fantasies about Obama the Muslim socialist, a yuppie progressive (particularly of the campus variety) and his inability to distinguish between closet fascism and market centrism, etc.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."