The unconscious of a conservative (addendum)

Central Plains prairie. From ecolandscaping.org

That inability of conservatives to imagine themselves in the other guy's position may help explain the habit they have of regarding everything as a game, but not "only" a game.

Republican reaction to the president's cancellation of the Keystone pipeline project made me think about this--like Rep. Lee Terry of Nebraska, quoted on NPR this morning as saying,

I'm deeply, deeply disappointed that our president decided to put his politics above the nation.... To me it's pretty obvious, it's all about election-year politics.

The party line is that Obama has [jump]