I look at posters like Pete and Adam as horribly misguided people that for what ever reason, are convinced that their political beliefs are valid. I have these same conversations over and over with them, because I refuse to believe that they are incapable of waking up and realizing how dangerous the policies they embrace really are. In other words, I don't want to give up on them and I'm trying my best not to do so.
You seem to agree with my view on this issue, but yet you look down your nose at me like I'm a fool. If that's the case, then why bother responding to my posts at all?
I've never said you are a fool. In fact I can tell by the names of posters that *like* anything that any opponent of yours in any thread says to you, a lie, a group of lies, hell they could just post
mummer to you, and a certain group of names always pops up that "likes" the lie, the group of lies, the personal ad homs, the
mummers. Names like AdamT, Catawba, PeteEU, Middleground, Hazelnut, ..... to keep the list short. I realize this is because you have presented arguments and information they could not rebut and which really pissed them off. However, I do think you are a masochist and I've said so to you before with regard to pbrauer. Unlike most everyone of the names I just listed that just loves and needs to "like" anything said to you by anyone else, no matter how mind numbingly idiotic it is, you have the capacity to admit from time to time where you were wrong or made a mistake. Probably another thing that drives them nuts about you.
All of that said, a lot of the time these people that you don't want to give up on? They are not misguided. They know exactly what they are doing and do so with glee whenever you post. They even know what they are saying is BS, they know when they are just acting out and they know precisely what to say to punch your buttons and thus generate more comments that can be "liked" by the peanut gallery. Hell, I even bet that in many cases they not only agree with your arguments, but don't bother to present the ones they make to you, to a single person in the real world. People on the internet are funny like that, they will say and post all sorts of things they would never want a single person that knows them in the real world to be aware of. Least they be judged a lunatic.
So yeah, I think you have a masochistic streak in you. Sue me.