[lit-ideas] Re: The Heil Heidegger Effect

Lawrence and Donal provide very plausible reasons for this "effect." Humor me while I expand the notion.
Conservative zealots colligate their political prejudices with the interests of the nation and what they see as time-tested values. To wreck the venerable machinery that works is "stupid." To endanger national advantage is "wrong."
Liberal zealots associate their political prejudices with a longer, and also more narrowly focused moral narrative, whether utopian, Jesus-based, or rooted in romantic notions from Les Miserables or other liberation-based literature. To disagree with a liberal zealot, therefore, is to condemn Jean Valjean to prison, to laugh at Henry Fonda's speech at the end of The Grapes of Wrath, to throw a pie at Charlie Chaplin during his final speech at the end of The Great Dictator. It is to be "evil." 
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