After retreating from Gettysburg, many of the Confederate foot soldiers wrote home and told their families that the battle had ended in a tie or perhaps a victory. That's how powerful the will to believe in a cause can be. Facts often do not matter, and for a foot soldier in the fog of war, facts can be hard to come by. We see the same phenomenon at work today in the Tea Party's war on women. That war, like the wars on drugs and on gays and on students and on people of color, has been lost, but the Tea Party cannot believe it. As far as they are concerned, the Confederacy can not lose. Defeat is not possible.
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