History punishes Conservatives.

I am a true believer in liberal American politics. I am happy to call myself a liberal. Mostly because I believe the Left is usually correct. Also, I admit freely, I like being on the winning team. Of course, I do not mean elections - as we liberals are bonecrushingly bad at winning them. I mean ISSUES. The Left, time and time again is proven correct. And eventually the "Right" comes around. There is no longer a big lobby promoting segregation, child labor, and removing the voting rights of women. Three random, historical examples of the "Right" being vehement - and wrong, wrong, wrong.

Iraq is the most recent incarnation of the "Right's" consistent record of being vehement and wrong. The cavalcade of conservatives who have seen the light about Bush 2's destructive dance on the national stage is heartening. And pathetic. Of course, all those wrongwingers could have saved a lot of time and agony by taking the Left seriously. We knew how this foolish war was going to turn out all along. And said so. We saw Bush for what he was and is from the gate -powermad, deceitful, and cavalier.

Will the "Right" ever learn? No. Learning and evolving and interpretation and thoughtfulness, and hard, deep analysis are qualities that terrify them. They are cowards. The real world - the world in which solutions exist almost entirely in complexity scares the shit out of the Limbaughs and the Coulters.
History punishes conservatives time and time again. But history is complex, evolving, progressive, and not at all conservative.