Democrats are "Freeloaders" and "Takers" ... responses to?

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13. Yup, I always keep in mind that I won't change the ideologue's mind. My comments are for the others

3) Because of #s 1 and 2, you will not "win" online confrontations. The best you can hope for is that you represent facts correctly and maturely, and that a few silent but thoughtful onlookers will respect your voice, and digest some of your facts.

Truth has a liberal bias, use it and hold your head up, and welcome to DU

Yup, the reason I get into the mixed message board / comments on news articles discussion is not to even attempt to change the mind of the ideologs, but rather the occasional "swing" onlooker who may, as one example, prefer the Dems on social issues, but have been indoctrinated into believing that Obama's stimulus has failed, that Repubs are more responsible fiscal stewards and the better job creators etc. So I'm big on putting out job creation records of Dems v. Repubs, the Repub record on the national debt (nearly tripled under Reagan, nearly doubled under G.H. Bush, nearly doubled under G.W. Bush) and responding to the nonsense like it was the Democratics taking control of Congress in January 2007 that crashed the economy ("it was doing just great until then&quot . Nope, mortgage defaults were rising every quarter throughout 2006 and housing prices were already heading down from a June/July 2006 peak and trillions of dollars of collaterized debt obligations and credit default swaps were out there ready to explode if housing prices fell on a sustained basis and on and on.