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Maybe someone here can show me the undoubtedly limitless number of threads in which people from the left thoughtfully and intelligently de-construct every facet and plank of the tea party. Showing where their ideas are actually wrong. Giving solid reasoning and data to show how they are wrong, and why the other side of the argument is true. Basically disarming them 100%, logically and fairly.
Maybe someone here can show me the undoubtedly limitless number of threads that do the same to the ideas held by Sarah Palin. Why exactly she is wrong, what she is wrong about, all that kind of stuff. In intelligent deconstruction of her ideals and political positions. Factually.
Maybe someone can point me to the endless number of threads where liberals don't say
anything about the other side at all! And instead they lay out the wonderful ideals of their political beliefs and how they work.. and
why they work, and why it's important for us to adopt those policies. Without any resorting to instead telling us why the other side is evil and to be feared.
But be honest folks, those threads don't even exist. I defy someone to show me just one.
Instead, most threads are nothing but ridicule and ad hominem. Someone or another is a complete idiot! OMG, could this person be more dumb? <A> said <X>, OMG! STUPID!! The tea party is all racists! They are all stupid and racist? Did you hear me? I said they are stupid and racist! Why would you support that? What specifics? THEY ARE STUPID AND RACIST.
And not to mention other things, like every couple of months we can count on Travis to post a new thread about how he can't get health insurance, and how basically.. anyone that wants to stand in the way of his getting health insurance.. whoever they are.. whatever their stated reasons are.. we all know the truth. THEY WANT TRAVIS TO DIE! HORRIBLY! Pure emotional appeal that has no logical basis.
And I also haven't even begun to address the most insane and radical types, most extremely demonstrated by Lefty Sarge. Even people on his own side realize he's hopeless and don't try to convince him otherwise. But the man is a bile factory. Nothing but contempt and vitriolic personal assaults of the worst kind. He's an example of someone who is long gone in terms of any constructive debate. He actually is to the point that the ends justify the means, in his mind.
There are barely any Republican/conservative posters here at all. What few we've had have been rather nasty in their own right. Like Cicero, who got himself banned. But what do you know, I suspect we'll never see the likes of Lefty Sarge banned, when he is every bit as bad, or worse, for his own side.
This entire forum bears all the halmarks of the old "ivory towers" syndrome. It's mostly populated by leftists for whom everything they believe in is reality, long since proven as such, and anything against that is evil, stupid and dangerous. There is virtually no critical thinking or open debate on any subject. It's just a club where like minded people who all agree with each other routinely start new threads just lambasting and personally insulting people they disagree with. And they all back slap each other and high five each other in the process.
And I know that by now, some are even thinking "hey, even if alot of that is true, it's justifiable because the Republicans must be stopped". Its' the "ends justify the means" mentality. It's clear that all too many people on the left subscribe to this mentality. We see it daily, all throughout the world, where people don't take a subject on directly, but instead, discredit the person making the argument, and thereby feeling that they have also discredited the entire argument in the process. It's been the standard operating procedure with regards to Sarah Palin for sure.
And the place that this is most maddening to a conservative such as myself as that all these things you are convinced are forgone conclusions are the furthest from being that, in my world. There are a million things I see held up here as obviously correct that are 100% wrong. There are million ideals I see held up here that have been long since destroyed in terms of substance. But every day, I gotta try to read as people sit in their own little dream worlds, and spout inane nonsense as fact. I have to figure out how to reason with someone who's entire world is built on a foundation that is so flawed and separated from reality, there is virtually no hope of ever reasoning with them.
These forums absolutely have a liberal bias. But only in that the majority of people who use them are clearly liberal. And not willing at all to even entertain the idea they are wrong about anything.. let alone wrong about
just about everything.
