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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oops, I accidentally put my comment inside the quote.

"You failed to point out that in the House, the body closest to the people (2 year terms, small districts, etc), Republicans have a 50 seat majority."
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And that most states have dramatically moved right in recent years.  But no worries, there are puppies, rainbows and unicorns on every corner. La, la la, la la!

[/b]To the naive liberal aethiest, I'm not upset that people who disagree with me get to vote, of course (and if a strawman is necessary for you to make your point, maybe you should rethink whether it's worth making).  It's that there are so many of them that irritates me, and that their numbers are growing at an alarming rate.    [b]

Ezra Klein authored a great article for the New Yorker which makes the observation that with the exception of higher taxes on rich people, virtually all of the Obama administration's proposals started off as Republican policies a very short time ago (the most obvious being the individual mandate).  Now, those same policies are viewed by mainstream Republicans as anathema to the very idea of democracy (and unconstitutional at that), and would likely bring the Republic to it's knees.  Aside from the rampant hypocrisy this reveals, it makes the point pretty persuasively that the country is tacking to the right at an alarming rate.  You can go on and on about "how the best ideas win out" - but that assumes an unlimited time horizon, which is pretty impractical (and again, naive).  In the near to mid term, if you have a remotely progressive bone in your body and you're not concerned about the direction in which the copuntry is heading, at best you're not paying attention.  And if you are payign attention - well, see previous comment on intellectual firepower, or lack of same.  [/quote]

I usually enjoy a discussion with someone with an opposing point of view, because it forces me to analyze my position. In this case, however, you serve only to reinforce my opinions. Your main argument is repeatedly calling me naive or stating my lack of intellectual firepower. I think I will move on to someone with a better ability to make a sound argument without resorting to name calling or insulting my intellect. Good luck and I hope the church people will stop ruining your life!
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You’re right that I shouldn’t insult you, and I apologize.  (It’s pretty ironic, though, that someone who throws out “judgmental and close-minded” gets huffy about being insulted.  If I were so inclined, I’d point out that you simply could have said I was wrong about my assumptions about your views without throwing in the opening salvo of insults, but there’s no point in getting into the “you started it” conundrum.).

If you’d like to start over, it’s pretty obvious that the insults weren’t my “main argument.”  If you’d like to respond to them, I promise, no more insults.  
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