Contributed by: filbert Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 11:23 AM CST
In the end, we have to face the fact that political intolerance in America — ugly and unfortunate on either side of the political aisle — is to be found more on the left than it is on the right. This may not square with the moral vanity of progressive political stereotypes, but it’s true.
Mr. Brooks, a professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Public Affairs and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of the forthcoming book “Gross National Happiness.”
Here’s the source site, American National Election Studies[*2] –a joint venture of the University of Michigan and Stanford, neither noted as rabidly right-wing entities.
It’s really not too late for those of you on the left to take a step back, a deep breath, stop the shouting matches, and try to re-engage your fellow citizens who disagree with you.
Via Michelle Malkin[*3]