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"However I find it is the liberals that I find have the greatest difficulty seeing the other sides points. It is the liberals that usually flip flop back and forth. The only time I have seen a Republican change is because things change. It is also the Liberals who can't back up thier opinions with logic (not wishy washy things like because it's wrong)"
I refer you to the furore over Bush's illegal spying scandal -- in that instance, as in so very many others, it is the lefties/Democrats (and the Republicans who joined them) who have logic on their side (amazing that some people actually have to be informed that, well, it's illegal to break the law, but that's how Orwellian the right-wing media has become).
Over the past few years, I've watched as vast reams of right-wing pundits, high-profile and low, resort to emotive gibbering entirely bereft of logic or honour, unable to provide any kind of reference for their accusations outside of worthless anecdotes, squeals of "everyone knows it's true!", or, most shameful of all, outright lies. Meanwhile on the opposite side of the divide, even the (justifiably, to my mind) vicious invective of lower-brow pundits like the Rude Pundit is riddled with links to decent data, real news reports (as opposed to easily-debunked trash from, say, 'Newsmax') and impeccable internal logic. While a lot of people only adopt liberalism as a knee-jerk reflex, there are plenty of us who chose this path thoughtfully, and are dedicated to intelligently searching for truth, fairness and human decency; a party like the Republicans, currently dedicated to the 'morals' of America's corporate shills and enemies of spiritual freedom, is of little use to us; hatemongers like O'Reilly are worth even less. I'm sorry if that sounds mean, but at least it's not groundless.
