Ted, you're the one demonstrating an ideological rigidity.
Not at all. I want out of Afghanistan so badly, I can taste it. Yet, I begrudgingly understood the logic of finishing the job. I am a social liberal but I am also a fiscal conservative and I work very hard to balance out both preferences. For me, ideology is a touchstone, not a structure for life. For conservatives, its their life.
I address arguments and points. You reject them not with sound reasoning and solid facts but with "a conservative said that".
That's very true. I don't trust conservatives any more and pay their arguments little heed. That's after years of finding that most of what they have to say is based on myths rather than facts; on lies rather then truth. Conservatives have become slaves to the all mighty dollar and will do anything, including sacrificing the best interests of your country, for that dollar. If you all want to be taken seriously once again, you need to stick to the facts even if they don't agree with your ideology and to balance out conservative greed with altruism.
You don't even "find facts annoying", if there presented from a conservative or libertarian source, you just pay them no notice, so they can't annoy you.
Tim, when a 'fact' is presented by a conservative, its not uncommon to find that said fact has been so tortured and manipulated, its a bit of a stretch to still call it a fact. As far as I can tell, the conservative movement has gone so far off the track over the past 30 years, it will take some time for you all to get your house in order. That's assuming the conservative house was ever based on reality.
And you know what, Tim, the only reason I am having this conversation with you is because you are one of the better conservatives. It wouldn't be so bad if most of them were like you. |
