Reply #25: No disagreement from me

[Bragi]

My posting was more about the fact that facts don't matter much anymore. The right doesn't have to prove that he is a liberal, they just have to signal that there is debate on the subject. The ill-informed and lazy public can then conclude that if there's debate, either side could be correct.

It's like climate change. Though there is no real debate among informed experts on the facts, lazy people still think that there is doubt as to what is happening because there continues to be debate, and they eventually just support the side they most associate themselves with.

I think the same will be true about whether the shooter here was of the right or left persuasion. Moreover, the easiest position to sell is that he was crazy, and thus he cannot and does not represent a political perspective. I agree with you that this is a false argument, I just don't think it matters.

(Sorry if this is confusing, but this is just a quick, drive-by response. Suffice it to say that there's nothing you wrote with which I disagree.)