Liberalism & Conservatism = Possible Confusion

[stycotl]

Originally Posted by jtur88

stycotl, I had already acknowledged in my post that the targets of my wry comments are more often conservatives, I guess, although I do not (well, rarely) play personality games here, and if I disagree with a post, I often don't even look at who it is, and I don't keep a mental rolodex of which posters are conservative and which are liberal. I respond to posts on the merit of the post. If I conclude from the content of a post that the person is by nature inclined to be vicious or mean-spirited, I can become downright impolite. Such people are terrifyingly numerous.

The things I am most likely to object to are anecdotal arguments and arguments supported by unreliable sources or pure whimsy, or posts in which non-sequiturs are drawn from demonstrable realities. If someone states something to be a fact. I address the basis of the supposed fact, not the political philosophy that wishes it were a fact.

I think if you click on my screenname at the top of this post and read my previous posts in various forums, this will be borne out for you.

I have about a dozen people on my ignore list, because the mere exercise of responding to moronic posts no longer amuses me.

thanks for the response. i am adjusting my opinion of your political affiliation because of it.

i don't keep track of who belongs to what club either, but there are a few that i interact with often enough that even my short memory can keep track of them and the ideologies that they cling to.

it is nice to know that there are more of the moderates out there that aren't handcuffing themselves to the sinking ships that are our political parties. i can understand religious devotion to a *religion* since people are professing a hope for some kind of spiritual, generally eternal ascension, but to a political party? that has always been the most idiotic, nonsensical kind of dogma in my mind.