[quote=pri_dk]Allan, I’ve noticed the discussions here seem to get sidetracked on semantic points a lot these days.
Is it really a contradiction to be an “incremental progressive?” I’ve never heard the term, but I think if someone gave me that label I would not take issue with it. In fact, I think the entire history of our country could be described as incremental progressivism (e.g. full civil rights for blacks was a process that occured over centuries.)
Yeah, Brian says some odd things on these threads, but I don’t think he’s that much more clueless than the rest of us. (I agree that the phrase “conserving back in time” really doesn’t make any sense.) Perhaps he just needs to think a little before he writes — something we all should do (also, I suspect he’s younger than most of us). Plus, I’ve noticed that he seems to be better at refraining from ad hominem than some of his usual debate opponents.
What I find to more amusing is that we have posters who lack any sense of proportion in the issues at hand. In one thread we have the “debtocalypse” and then in the next we have breaches of decorum. The world is coming to an end, and we are worried about the details of protocol?
(And of course the President can disagree with the Supreme Court. Any junior-high civics student could tell you that’s how our government was designed to work.)
It’s too bad that the political discussions here are degrading in quality. But at least we have fun discussions about yurts…[/quote]
Pri: Nope, I don’t disagree with you at all. What I do take issue with, is the attempt to argue both sides of the issue and take credit for both. I also agree with your point on both semantics and punctilio, but, in order to truly espouse a position, I would think you’d need to understand it first. I find his positions to be regurgitated Leftist talking points and, while he doesn’t stoop to ad hominem as much as some posters, he does draw truly bigoted stereotypes in his writings.
Your comment about his youth struck me, especially when juxtaposed with his views on the fairer sex. He made a comment on another post about telling women to mind their business and essentially to know their place and I burst out laughing. Yeah, that is something that would come out of a younger, less experienced person’s mouth. Or, the “40 Year Old Virgin”. Talk about not knowing the other side! I cannot imagine any of the women I know, countenancing that crap for a moment. I have a good friend, who is Stanford educated and a business professional, and she would verbally disembowel poor Brian if he trotted that position out to her.
