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[quote=TheManWithAUsername][quote=anonymous]For someone so obviously intelligent, you need a little bit of recalibration.[/quote]
You can flatter me all you want, but no one but the wife will be recalibrating this guy.

[quote=anonymous]There's a substantial grain of truth in most political positions, even those of the "yahoos."  If you don't agree, think hard about the consequences that the removal of traditional social mores have had on lots of people -- is it really so hard to admit that religious traditionalists may have a bit of a point, even if on balance you disagree?[/quote]
I wasn't just talking about religious yahoos. Since you asked, no, I don't think there's much of a case for putting more Christianity in government.

But even where I might agree with something a yahoo says, a broken clock's right twice a day. If, say, Evangelicals suddenly decided that God wanted them to help the poor, I'd still consider them yahoos. (Of course, I might be a little quieter about it while they were on my side, like you guys are.)

My point wasn't that you shouldn't associate with them because they're yahoos; it was that your interests aren't really aligned. You (I'm guessing) don't want religion in your government and don't want jingoism in your foreign policy. They shouldn't want more maldistribution of wealth.

[quote=anonymous]If you are holding any political views with a probability of greater than about 80% certainty or so, you aren't really doing much hard thinking.[/quote]
Hmm. I might agree that one's certainty about policy questions should be on a curve with a mean of about 65%. But again, I was referring to them - most relevantly, the basis for their positions - not necessarily their positions. Whatever my degree of certainty about the Iraq war, I'm confident that beliefs that Sadaam caused 9/ll or that God wants us to bring Christianity to the Middle East are bad reasons for it.

[quote=anonymous]While the Republicans clearly paper over some pretty significant divisions within their ranks, it's not so fractious a bunch as the motley assortment of interest groups comprising the Democratic party.  The joys of a two-party system, I suppose.[/quote]
The biggest split in the Dems now is between the constituency and the representatives. Within the constituency, I think that even though there are a lot of special interests, there's still a lot of agreement. If someone tells me he's an environmentalist, I tend to assume that he's pro-choice, anti-gun, etc. [/quote]

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