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Anyone who has ever had a conservation similar to the following understands the hopelessness of getting through the steel reinforced, concrete wall, that is ignorance. Many conservatives wear their ignorance proudly on their sleeves, for all the world to see. It is utterly impossible to discuss the issues of the day in rational and logical terms with a person so ignorant he would deny reality itself to further his pointless argument. Following is a conversation with such a person.

I'm old enough to remember that some of the very same kinds of people -- and in several cases precisely the same individuals -- who regularly invoked God to fiercely resist racial civil rights and women's equality a few decades back, are now thumping the Bible in a wicked attempt at keeping homosexuals from marrying.

They also believe young girls impregnated by teenaged date-rapists who often come from "proper" Republican families commit murder by wisely choosing abortions.

Some can't reconcile what they believe about the propaganda that is fed to them with their own positive experiences with public programs like Medicare.

As the health care discussion has descended from contentious to surreal, there is perhaps one message that encapsulates better than any other the incoherence of those expressions of rage seen at town hall meetings across the country: "Keep government out of my Medicare!"

Suddenly the disgraced and demoralized Republican Congress has an unearned future, thanks to the superhuman clumsiness of a man who has made himself indispensable to the Obama administration and insufferable to the Democratic Congress, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.