It will take some transcendent externality — like losing your job, career and buddy network as your news desk melts down — for such a Manichian self-exultation to implode.

As long as such a mentality gets steeped in the j-room groupthink there can be no emersion from its totality.

It is notable that uber-libs ALWAYS assume that conservatives are heartless, retro-moral, ditto-heads with all the guilt for the nature of man. After all, uber-libs are the only ones actively seeking a reformed, perfected man and society.

Imbued such a self-congratulating conceit it is impossible to cast off the pious narcissism: it generates such a recurrent flood of endorphins — it really is an addictive mechanism for facing the world.

To show how addictive a group-think passion can be: there were members of the Fuhrer Begleit Brigade who still believed in total victory as late as May 4, 1945 — even though the ‘valorous’ death of Hitler was on official broadcast! Having been coddled throughout the war with the best men and most favorable engagements ( Hitler was this unit’s effective Colonel — they were his own boys — and staffed his HQ ) this formation lived an alternate military reality. That shows just how extreme reality denial can stretch.

The journalist-brigades are as imbued as any Leftist in any regime at anytime anywhere.

They will leave their bubble sobbing and screaming only after Sauron blinks.