Reply #64: Here's the thing..

[sendero]

... having a viewpoint is not enough. You have to be able to DEFEND IT with FACTS.

The right wingers I know are very good at HAVING viewpoints but when called upon to defend their viewpoints with facts they quickly fall to kill the messenger, straw men, emotional appeals etc.

I don't waste a lot of time talking to such folks because you cannot change an opinion that is based on a "feeling" and not facts.

Their "feelings" have led us into a war, a war that has FACTUALLY turned out just as I and most folks here said it would. Why would I care about the viewpoint of people who are perennially just flat fucking wrong?

Fact is, I don't.