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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I recommend fucking with people on DailyKos for a laugh. I did a bit of it, along with some research on them, a couple years ago to drum up material for something I never finalized. It was amusing, and depressing.

You don't tweak with them by being a right winger. You do so by asking polite non-partisan questions that point out holes in the orthodoxies. They hate moderates, can't dela with people who don't wear positions on their sleeves and really - I mean, really - loathe moral relativists. They're almost identical to right wing nuts in the desire to:

1. Feel morally superior; and
2. Attack anything that could create fissures of disagreement between them.

It was quite eye-opening, and saddening. These zealots really are desperate to believe there's a formula, a point, a light at the end of the tunnel... and that they're on the right track toward it. That there's a reachable "just" society (of some amorphous structure they can no better describe than their tea party brethren). Truest proof I've ever seen that where there is populist angst mixed with heartfelt indignation, intelligence and reason are almost always on holiday.

Do you try to engage them on something intellectual, or just throw out Tea Party talking points and pretend that it's an honest question that you weren't capable of googling yourself?