Reply #48: Before I came to DU [View All]

[Mythsaje]

I used to post on the about.com civil liberties boards. A lot of RWer types there, but quite a few were fairly rational libertarian types. (Economically stupid, but generally socially decent). Saw a lot of these folks stand up to gay-bashing and the like.

There weren't a lot of rules. Well, frankly, there weren't any rules that I could see. It was like professional wrestling without the scripts.


But after 9/11, things changed. And then, when the Iraq War started heating up, things changed some more. People I'd assumed were rational began to prove themselves anything but. The cheerleading was over-the-top. Things that would've driven them nuts had a Democratic administration done them were lauded and applauded.

I left in flat disgust. A few weeks later I was here.

I've debated these folks and, well, it's about as productive as shaving a cat. A lot of noise and fury and not much in the way of positive results.

Of course the more diverse threads are generally more interesting. Echo chambers are rather dull, after all. Different points of view are healthy.

This fellow might be intelligent, but narrow-mindedness produces its own kind of idiocy.