This is about British Conservatives but it applies equally well to Republicans

[Lydia Leftcoast]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/12/revive-thatcherism-liam-fox-tories

It's from a comment made at 11:57AM, September 12 by a reader who posts under the name tkr9:

Tory - and even Thatcherite policy - is well-meaning (yes, they do actually BELIEVE they are doing the 'Right Thing') tosh predicated on one thing and one thing alone: That subconsciously they feel appallingly inadequate and need to believe that their wealth and status is because they have earned it, that they are bright, hard-working and deserve the fortune life has bestowed on them, and that anyone who hasn't got it is in that position because they just don't have 'it'.

Which, as everyone knows, is nonsense. Teachers are more talented than merchant bankers, writers more intellectual than lawyers. But Tories have to believe success is the result of their own innate amazing-ness and not just dumb luck, an unfair income system and an accident of birth.

That's why Osborne cannot, and will never, change his mind. If he admits he is wrong, he admits he is not as bright, special or clever as he, and the rest of his cronies, desperately need to believe they are, anything to countenance that the single mum on benefits doing the harder job of bringing up her kids in a recessional world is, purely and simply, worth more than them. All of them. Put together.

It's a subconscious neurosis, and they don't know they're feeling it, but the damage they are doing by using a recession as an excuse to implement their own ideology is, subconscious or not - utterly unforgivable.

[freshwest]

1. It always boils down to fear, doesn't it?

[Mnemosyne]

2. They are incapable of admitting they are wrong or apologizing. You hit it, Lydia! nt

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. Actually, the British commentator hit it.

I just found it.

[Mnemosyne]

5. Glad you did! Thanks Lydia! nt

[idwiyo]

3. K&R