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Originally posted by SinisterMotives
Typical of political discussions everywhere, you mean. Some people simply cannot look at a topic generically, but insist rather on injecting their specific "us vs. them" ideological spin into everything. Simply put, in their minds an appeal to reason on all sides is automatically construed as a personal or partisan attack which they must defend themselves or their party against. And so the mud-flinging continues. I agree that it's sophomoric, irrational, and tiresome, and that's why there are certain people I studiously refrain from trying to engage in any kind of debate nowadays.
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I've been involved in a fair number of good discussions that focused on the points but, in general, you're right that the higher likelihood is that any political discussion will be dominated by partisan BS.