Right-wing contradictory thought

Glenn Greenwald demonstrates how illogical and contradictory the ideas that pass for right-wing conservative thought really are. He starts with a like from Thomas Sowell's Townhall column today:

We all believe that people are innocent until proven guilty. Some on the left believe that they are innocent even after being proven guilty.

Glenn then goes on to quote Sowell when he whined that Lewis Libby isn't really guilty, even though the jury determined that Fitzgerald proved to them he was.

Then Glenn goes on to point out that American conservatives consider Jose Padilla guilty of planning a dirty bomb attack on America even when he was not charged and held with no attorney, no trial, and no hope of either just because our fearless leader said he was guilty. The finally gave up and never tried him on that. But he was guilty because Ashcroft and Bush said he was.

Why do right-wing conservatives think so irrationally? From Dr. bob Altemeyer's book "The Authoritarians" Glenn quoted:

A high [right-wing authoritarian] can have all sorts of illogical, self-contradictory and widely refuted ideas rattling around in various boxes in his brain, and never notice it. . . .

Research reveals that authoritarian followers drive through life under the influence of impaired thinking a lot more than most people do, exhibiting sloppy reasoning, highly compartmentalized beliefs, double standards, hypocrisy, self-blindness, a profound ethnocentrism, and -- to top it all off -- a ferocious dogmatism that makes it unlikely anyone could ever change their minds with evidence or logic.
[Emphasis mine - Editor WTF-o]

The guys running our foreign policy right now are this kind of irrational, illogical authoritarians. Look at that description again. "...sloppy reasoning, highly compartmentalized beliefs, double standards, hypocrisy, self-blindness, a profound ethnocentrism, and -- to top it all off -- a ferocious dogmatism...."

Conservatives really are that bad, both financial conservatives and religious fundamentalists. And they promote fellow "True-believers" rather then people with a demonstrated proficiency on the job, so that they can surround themselves with others who will not point out their sloppy and compartmented irrational thinking.