Reply #108: excellent point

[iverglas]

I've always wondered why anyone believed all those self-serving statements made by smug poll exiters, about how they voted their values. (I mean, I don't disbelieve their statements; their "values" generally consist of naked, if extremely unenlightened, self-interest.) Just all too damned convenient, I'd say.

Kinda like I wonder why anyone would unquestioningly believe a bunch of right-wingers (surely a trustworthy bunch) who claimed, on a personality quizzie, that they make choices and decisions based purely the evidence in front of them and their entirely rational analysis of that evidence (whatever that means anyhow: a choice is never made based on facts alone, it is made based on desired outcomes, which are among the premises that all that logic is applied to ... and which it's surely difficult to separate from those feelings thingies), and are never swayed by their feeeelings ... sorry, my head is starting to spin. Am I feeling dizzy, or just deducing rationally from the evidence that I'm dizzy? Hmmmmmm.