Originally Posted by biznatch

Sorry, but imagine debate class in school. If you have one student in favor or, say, health care reform, who presents his arguments with facts, examples, statistics, and turns it into a coherent case, of course people will pay attention, and they'll have something to respond to.
If the opponent's response is something to the tune of "but the reform will entail death panels!" or "everything done by the current President is communism!" without backing it up, he's gonna get ridiculed.

We're not ostracizing, it's just hard to listen to highly emotional, non-factual, hardly coherent babble, the only purpose of which is to make people angrier.

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See, that's fine. It's also more coherently formulated than practically anything I've seen in the whole "movement."
I don't have a problem listening to people like you, who state valid concerns, it's the mass of ridiculous pre-made thoughts worded by pundits and copy-catted by protesters, via signs, chants, and blog posts that make me cringe.