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seriously, politicophile, i don't see where you have to go with your position.
repeatedly in the thread folk have shot holes in the basic assumptions that underpin your claims--and you do not react. which leads me to wonder if this is a debate at all--a question that would loop around onto the underlying conflict that seperates the right from everyone else on this matter: is there ANY level of information, ANY level of proof that would persuade you to re-examine your position relative to this administration and its war?
if yes, then what might that be?
if no, then how is this a debate?
one thing that i was doing when i posted here more regularly was working out ways to connect conservative ideology in general to particular kinds of moves that you would see here--i was (and still am) particularly interested in how this discourse seems to generate real problems for otherwise reasonable folk in processing dissonant information. it is a strange phenomenon, frankly--i haven't seen another american political formation quite like the contemporary mediaright. you can never really tell how any particular individual who works behind the aliases in a place like this is thinking when he or she posts something, so it seems useless to try to shift into motive--but nonetheless, there is a consistent resistance to dissonant information from conservatives, and real problems that arise on that basis in confronting them with such information. it is as if that information reaches a certain mass and gets repressed. it is most curious.
what appears to me to be happening is a kind of experiment---it looks to me like you are testing out the new administration line and seeing what happens to it--maybe a devil's advocate game, maybe something else, it's impossible to know.
so is there any standard that you have that you apply to this kind of interaction, any amount of information that you would accept as falsifiying your position?
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