Why he responds to the 32%

J.D. Henderson of Intel Dump writes in the Comments to someone called Diogenes something that resonated with me -- not just the analysis but his understanding of human nature and reality of this world that we share with Dio and his "32%".

Your weak attempts to link Saddam and Al Queda show that you can not admit the truth to yourself - you were lied to and you believed it. You still do, and no facts I present will change that.

Some will wonder why I bother to respond to Dio instead of ignoring him as a troll? Because he is not a troll. He believes what he is saying, and 32% of US voters agree with him. They can't really say why they agree, or they rely on "documents" that even the White House won't push for fear of giving the Democrats another cudgel to beat them with - in short, the administration knows that such talk is nonsense. But why do they still imply such nonsense? Because people WANT to believe that the president has a plan, they WANT to believe that our nation was not misled or lied to, they WANT to believe that our cause, for which we have sacrificed so much, is just and right. They WANT to believe that invading Iraq was the right thing to do.

That is why I reply - because that deliberately ignorate 32% that refuses to face an unpleasant reality (that we are the aggressor, our invasion was unjust, and we are losing this war) only requires 18.1% of the remaining US voters to agree with them and the party that led us into this mess will triumph again. Right now it is 50/50 whether the democrats will take back the House. If they do not then we will most likely go to war again, and we will most likely lose.