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Stevens and Turner do not claim to be converts and the don't claim special knowledge about conservatives.

Actually Stevens claims to be a reformed conservative now libertarian but his rulings and decisions put him firmly in the socialist style left. Turner claimed to be a conservative till he married Jane Fonda then claimed to be a liberal but most of his recent statements and gifts to the UN place him firmly in the far left too. I guess Turner could be a neo-con but I don't even know what that really means?

Ever talk to a militant anti-smoker? They are routinely former smokers. David Horowitz was a red-diaper baby. It is an often observed phenomenon.

How about a recently born again Christian? No one proselytizes more than a convert.

If you've read my deconstruction of the essay and think I've erred in my analysis, then show where my errors are

You are attacking the arguer and not the argument. I think we have made that pretty apparent.

To me, the issue of whether she is real or not is irrelevant.

For me it is relevant. If the story of the writer is indeed not true than the argument begins with a lie. Fruit of the poisoned tree and all that.

But the oversimplified generalities, emotional suppositions and derision heaped on liberals and liberal ideology that pours out of the essay, which make it sound like a simple fiction, seems to indicate where it came from is midstream in her trip from fear, anger and self-questioning that brings negative answers, to confidence in the accuracy of her view of her relationship with the world and what the truths are. I hope she's smarter than to stop with such generalities, inaccurate suppositions and group-centered identities, especially if she expects to be a competent psychotherapist. There's a danger in the inaccurate stereotypes of liberal ideology and oversimplified generalities of its tenets becoming permanent, which would pretty much put her out of a job in Berkeley.

Of course they are oversimplified. Same as how the left paints the right. Check out the Doonesbury cartoons of the Starbucks open carriers. At least as a cartoon it is a "honest" lampoon. But the garbage spilled forth by the political hacks and media spokesmen are not. Sort of like the liberal media's intentional attempt to disguise the racial identity of the open carrier of the rifle at the Obama rally as black.