Not at all. I want out of Afghanistan so badly, I can taste it. Yet, I begrudgingly understood the logic of finishing the job.
What does that have to do with the point at hand? Wanting out of Afghanistan is a desire. Considering the idea of finishing the job, even when it goes against your immediate emptional desire might be a good thing, but it doesn't deal with the idea of listening to and seriously addressing arguments from those with very different perspectives, unless its just such an argument that convinced you to change your mind (which seems unlikely to me, but its possible), and even then it would be a single case, set against countless cases of your using ad-hominem dismissive of anything from a libertarian or even vaguely conservative sources.
A conservative could tell you the sky is blue, and you apparently would start thinking its green.
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You want politicians of different ideologies to "work together", but you ideas about working together seem to be lets all brainstorm about how to adopt the liberal, progressive, big government, and/or Democratic, agenda. Really working together implies paying attention to other viewpoints and achieving some sort of consensus that your going to work for, not attacking anyone who doesn't agree with you as "the party of no". |
