Quote for Monday, October 26

This week's quote speaks to everything that is wrong with the conservative movements--both political and religious--in this country.  Their refusal to listen to anyone who doesn't hold the same opinions as they do has resulted in a self-imposed state of isolationism that leaves them stagnating within the echo chamber of their common belief in their own superiority and unwilling to educate themselves beyond what is already "known."

And yet, they insist on standing on the ramparts of their cloistered demesne, day in and day out, to shout their message over the hum of a world that is moving on.

The question I would most like to ask a conservative: Why should we hear you when you refuse to hear us? 

monday quote:

"It's an universal law--intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education.  An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility."

(Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, novelist, historian, critic of USSR, 1918-2008) 

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