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Originally Posted by frodly
Congratulations on your 100th post. It is good to have you here. You are quickly becoming one of my favorite conservative posters.
It seems alot(if not most of) the very conservative posters here start every argument from the premise that they know they are right, and you are stupid for disagreeing with them. So their entire post is a giant condescension with little to back up their argument, since they are so assured of their being correct they feel no need to offer evidence or logic. One conservative poster is guilty of this in particular, no need to name him we all know who I am talking about! Some of hard line liberals are guilty of this as well.
But you offer your argument in a very clear and unpretentious way and I commend you!
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The fact that people just assume the other person is wrong on principle (whether or not they actually know what the principle is) is just plain ignorance, and comes from both sides of the spectrum. It has a lot to do with how a person is raised, and they will usually just spout out whatever their parents taught them to.
It would be great if we could somehow come up with a fair and unbiased test to make sure that people who vote understand the principles behind the issues, instead of just having people vote for who ever they think will get them the most money. Of course, it would be pretty hard to do that.