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One lesson the debate teaches, though few seem to have learned it, is that the left side of the debate never hesitates to reject the moral legitimacy of its opponents, while at the same time screaming and screeching if the right side ever insinuates any doubt about the left’s moral postures. Those who have followed the controversies between left and right over the years may have noticed that the left does this routinely.

In the eyes of the left, the right is almost always motivated by greed (Franklin Roosevelt’s “malefactors of great wealth”), hate (“racism,” “xenophobia,” “homophobia,” “anti-Semitism,” “bigotry”) or just general irrationality, if not outright insanity (“the paranoid fringe“). It seems to be impossible for the left to acknowledge that those who disagree with it from the right do so because they are rationally convinced of the truth of what they believe and the moral necessity of acting on it. To the mentality of the left, there’s always an ulterior, and discreditable, reason why anyone disagrees with it.

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