Reply #90: w/e

[fearsomepirate]

Pandering won't get you much except complete loss of the right to have any self-respect. The truth of the matter is that people like you are the exact sort who assume that the William F Buckleys and Robert Borks of the world are complete idiots who wouldn't know a well-reasoned thought if it punched them in the face and pissed on their shoes.

Let me give a good example: Your main response to the fact that people don't accept your dogma is to call them idiots. Whatever happened to tolerance? You can be a smart person and have differing views on the nature of morality, deity, existence, and knowledge, but not on politics?

It is unfathomable to you that a well-reasoned human being might not agree that a classist system of taxation is <i>de facto</i> a good thing, or that anything that benefits upper fincancial classes is <i>de facto</i> a bad thing. "It will unfairly benefit the rich" might sound like a good reason to some people, but not to all. If you're not going to present a well-reasoned argument, don't expect people to follow you in droves.

Quite to the contrary of your post, Democrats tend to be slaves to classist, populist, race-baiting rhetoric. Initiatives to do something about the Social Security system now in its death throes are shot down "because the elderly will eat dog food." Proposals to do soemthing about our ailing power grid are refuted "because the children will choke on carbon monoxide." No, you're masters at pandering.

And as stupid as you say Bush is, you sure attribute vastly complex and devious conspiracies to him.