“Conservatives and those on the right are usually willing to settle for thinking themselves correct on political issues; those on the left have always needed to feel not so much that they are correct but that they are also good. Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, sentimental, foolish, a dope; disagree with someone on the left and he is more likely to think you sel-fish, cold-hearted, a sellout, evil — in league with the devil, he might say, if he didn't think religious terminology too coarse for our secular age.”