waaaay back around 2002 or 3, just after GWB began destabilizing the ME and granting the top 1% yet more tax relief, there was a blogger from Austin who would go on and on about a reality that's never openly discussed.........the underlying reason for the cultish behavior of these hardcore 'conservatives' is a seething, rabid, red hot HATRED for liberals or anything resembling a so-called liberal. They carry all this hatred for a couple of reasons; indoctrination from birth and genetics (google that, studies have shown a definite hereditary link). It's why they glady accept all the lies while at the same time disbelieving them