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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
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?
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I sided with them gently, but would shift slowly toward a libertarian arguments. I recall citing non-partisan economic reasons to support Dems, and saying I liked Clinton. Clinton seems to piss a lot them off.
They're emotional, like Tea Baggers. The driver behind all movement minds, I think, is a need to see one's own form of justice enshrined broadly.
Thank God my parents were cynics. The sole idealism I hold is a vain, ludicrous belief people can brought to think for themselves more, and that movements and ideologies and things like religion and strident party affiliation can be broken down and not so rotely observed by so many. In that, I guess I'd be what... An absurdist?
Chris Rock had a great bit on tribal thinkers. Fucking brilliant. I'm going to go find that. Had me laughing my ass off the other night. It was from a special that had one of the sharpest lines I've ever heard a comedian utter: (On opportunities for minorities in America) "If you're Black, America's like your uncle who pays your way through college... But also molests you."
