Daniel_

Fixed!

Back to mathew's points - you had me. I could see the validity of much (but not all) of what you were saying in your most recent post.

And then you did something that I find particularly arrogant, and whilst I'm not meaning to apply it as a stereotype, you did something that I can only say I've seen in Americans.

You accused the people who had engaged you in a (mostly) reasonable dissuasion of being "the tilted left". Oh dear.

Why is it that:
1) Some Americans seem to behave as if reasoned argument indicates slavish membership of some dark cabal, and
2) The same Americans assign that cabal to the political left.

Why is free thought seen as endorsement of socialism?

I have no doubt at all that the political spectrum covered by myself, silent jay, Taylor, Baraka Guru, hannuka harry, Leto etc is broad and divergent. In fact I would expect that we would disagree on many fundamental issues.

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