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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mistermj who wrote (165981)	7/13/2011 8:07:48 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541824

The best approach is not to talk to people who one disagrees with about politics, unless one is stupid enough to get a job in government, where you have that sort of thing forced upon you, with the results we see today in Washington. IMO democrats and republicans want to live in vastly different worlds- it would be nice if we could actually physically separate, but alas, not practical, and we've sort of seen how that kind of thing ends up- witness the partition of India. Thus, I think you educate yourself about the positions that make your skin crawl by reading about them on newsites where you don't have to interact with the folks espousing the positions, and you have your fun with folks whose views you can respect. Lindy Bill would tell you that. And I will tell you that. IMO trolling around finding folks to disagree with is distasteful in the extreme. I have zero interest in actually trying to have meaningful conversations with folks I don't agree with. I've never seen it do any good- and why would I waste my time? I guess if you LIKE doing that, more power to you (though I wish you'd do it elsewhere- since this is one of the two threads I like), but most of the time places that try to "discuss" devolve in to insults-only forums, where people who are obviously working out their anger issues from 3d, go to play with each other. Faultline ran one of the few forums where people tried to "discuss"- but even there I saw no communication. It was a thread of politely traded policy statements- and polite arguing that never went anywhere. I'm here mostly for the folks I like. I've made excellent, politically compatible, friends on SI. I can't imagine being real friends with people who don't subscribe to most of my political beliefs- it would be too tedious for words to either never bring up politics or have to nod politely about ideas I thought were stupid, or have to argue with my friends. Not the way I live.