Reply #13: It's a consequence of the binary brain [View All]

[Chulanowa]

Republicans and other conservatives are simply incapable of a "maybe" or "halway" - Everything is either yes or no.

So they see, say, the USSR back in the day with its bloated Bureaucracy and gross restrictions on freedom... And in their poor logic and inability to think in medium, deduced that doing the exact opposite of Russia was going to be the greatest thing ever. And they're still working on it, and are still stuck in that paradigm - not the "Obama's a Commie!" meme.

It ties in to their slippery slope argument, where say, using a single stem cell to treat cancer is exactly the same as growing a whole human and chopping it up for organs. They simply can't conceive that life is not a yes no, black white situation