"J. Clarke" wrote in message

That's good but when the Feds start telling the states that they
_must_
install such cameras or lose their highway trust fund income do you
think it's going to be as easy to reverse? After all if it only
saves
one life . . .

The liberal mindset is that they are inherently Good and should be
free to do as they please, but conservatives (=heretics) are
inherently Evil and deserve to be suppressed.

Sometimes they reveal a sullen resentment toward the people who
provide them with what they need but can't provide for themselves,
such as utility services. The innocence of ignorance isn't really a
virtue.

They get a really strange twisted facial expression when I
successfully point out their self-serving irrational bias to them in
person.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

They were visibly depressed to discover the large fraction of very
intelligent, literate and articulate conservatives in Mensa. It just
wasn't any fun to shift the conversation to Renaissance art and music,
and discover that this techie could also discuss Telemann, Palladio,
Monteverdi, Caravaggio, Brunelleschi.

Normally we are too busy DOING to have as much time as they do for
talking, and don't have the insecure need for public self-validation
such as studies "proving" liberals' wished-for mental superiority.