Pissing Off the Liberals Because They Can

Yesterday Digby posed the question as to why conservatives are so crazed about global warming and Amanda Marcotte jumped on it in depth. Amanda pretty much hits the nail on the head and I think she is right...it pisses off the liberals.

And boy, is it effective! Those liberals sure get steamed when they think about how reckless behavior will result in millions of unnecessary deaths. They blow smoke out their ears when you drive around in an SUV precisely to show how little you give a shit if worldwide drought creates worldwide war. They may be smarter and cooler than you, but by being a mega-watt asshole of sociopathic proportions, you gain the upper hand because you piss them off. There are a lot of ways to piss liberals off. You can be pointlessly racist or sexist. You can sniff around in people’s private lives and carry on about how vegetarians are stupid. But few things really can top the global warming denialism. The sheer magnitude of the damage that it does is so severe that it’s impossible for liberals not to get upset. And so you win!

Amanda's post is well worth it if you, like me, can't seem to understand what makes the global warming deniers so stubborn and generally whacked out on the subject of climate change. As Digby notes...when you boil it down, pissing off liberals seems to be their only motivation.