Must read all!-----Kevin Bass: I was a lifelong Democrat. I thought most conservatives were ignorant or evil or lying.

Bill Brindley - Kevin Bass: I was a lifelong Democrat. I thought... | Facebook - Bill Brindley

I believed almost everything written in the New York Times, The New Republic, and the Atlantic. 

• I was horrified when conservatives criticized the authorities. 

Every criticism I saw: I thought all of it was motivated by animus, resentment, self-interest, or ignorance.
Whatever truth there might have been in the criticism, I saw as a mere "half-truth": an exploitation of this or that cherrypicked fact being weaponized. 

• ...I saw liberal establishment institutions and figures as fundamentally good, so all criticism of them was automatically interpreted as being in bad faith.

Didn't the critics know that these institutions or figures were fundamentally good? 

• If they didn't, they were ignorant. 
• If they did, they were evil. 

It was that simple...