
06-18-2009, 11:04 PM
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Please elaborate...
Are you saying that you too believe that Obama means to take away the vote from American citizens? Do you think if I lived in the US, I would think there was even a remote possibility of that being on his agenda?
I am not criticizing for the sake of being a jerk - I am genuinely surprised that a rational, educated person would be that paranoid. So much so, in fact that I don't think you guys actually believe stuff like that at all. I think (hope) that the dislike for the man and his party and their associated policies is so intense that statements like that are a deliberate spouting of propoganda that you know to be false or at least unrealistic. My point then is that once people choose to indulge solely in negative rhetoric for its own sake, then there is little hope for civil debate or conversation as would normally occur in a "lounge".
The net result is that most threads posted here are doomed to deteriorate into polarized camps telling each other to piss off because the intention from the get go is to validate personal convictions and denigrate all others at the expense of everything else - including truth, honesty and general rationality.
Of course all of what I just typed will be instantly (and conveniently) interpreted as liberal, lefty, Obamamania B.S., but the truth is I feel that way about blind, unreasoning rhetoric no matter who is spewing it and regardless of who or what the target is.
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