There’s an excellent piece here about psychology in politics. I’m still sticking to my opinion that many of the people who display this sort of behavior are generally more comfortable with the world if there’s a massive evil conspiracy — at least you have someone to blame, instead of facing the reality that life often sucks and does so for bizarre and occasionally no reason whatsoever. I’m considering poaching the ‘they’re out to get us, so we must be important’ part of this though.
Via Power Line, of course.