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The point is, you all can make this little slice of opinion exchange into whatever you want it to be, if you have the inclination to do so...
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It come down to whether the TFP political community simply wants an "opinion exchange" or a more thought provoking fact-based discussion forum.
It was the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (among others) who said, "We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts."
The most informative exchanges and discussions here have been those in which opinions on both sides of an issue are supported with facts. Unfortunately, IMO, that has not been the case in many such exchanges and discussions.
The first step to Pan's stated vision of compromise and consensus building for the greater good, which I (and I believe most here) share, is working from a mutually acceptable, factual based, data set.