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Originally Posted by Brujah
Exactly. Thank you for taking the time to type it all out in these last few posts.  |
No problem. Look, as i've said, i'm neither democrat nor republican and won't be voting for either of them. If you had to put a label on me, it would be pragmatic libertarian.
That said, here's the reason i've been pretty active in the recent political threads: the amount of outright lying from the extreme right (which btw has hijacked the republican party) over the last half-dozen years is like nothing i've seen in my lifetime. they just keep making things up out of thin air and double down on them even after they've been proven to be completely inaccurate.
Great example from the RNC, which i watched most of: I watched at least 5 guys stand stand on stage and knowingly, willingly repeat the already disproven lie that Obama removed the welfare-to-work provision.
So I just can't help myself but to try and inject actual facts into the discussion.
I see it in my own life too and it's heartbreaking. Otherwise perfectly bright people parroting the fox news thinking points, and even when presented with documented facts that contradict them, they just won't accept it.
Even worse, they never do their own homework. This is exactly how fundamentalists operate.