INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM MEANS "2 + 2 = 5"???

Over the last 5 years or so, I've been very impressed with how impervious wingers are to the facts and I think I have one explanation for that. You may recall that Dostoyevsky's Underground Man (pp. 75-76) asserted that the essence of human free will may be to boldly assert that 2 + 2 DOES equal 5 and maybe that's part of the wingers reluctance to give credence to any facts which contradict their ideology. This absurd denial of the truth fits in with conservatives long standing attacks on "the elites."