seattle.politics

"metaluna" wrote in message
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> Paul Hovnanian . wrote:
> > Rudy Canoza wrote:
> >> By Brian C. Anderson
> >> City Journal
> >>
> >> It's hard not to notice that political discussion over
> >> the last decade has increasingly degenerated into
> >> name-calling-and that the insults most often come from
> >> the left: "racist," "homophobe," "sexist,"
> >> "mean-spirited," "insensitive." It has become a habit
> >> of left-liberal political argument to use such
> >> invective to dismiss conservative beliefs as if they
> >> don't deserve an argument and to redefine mainstream
> >> conservative arguments as extremism and bigotry.
> >> Close-minded and uncivil, this tendency betrays what's
> >> liberal in liberalism.
> >
> > It is not possible to engage in reasoned discussion or debate over
> > topics when one parties' beliefs are based on faith. Over the past
> > several decades, conservatives ideologies have changed from well
> > reasoned positions that had more of a libertarian lean to a theocratic
> > conservatism which tolerates no dissent.
> >
> > If a person or a group takes the position that their belief are based on
> > faith rather than reason and therefore not open to change, all that
> > remains for the rest of us is to change the group or person rather than
> > their ideologies.
> >
> You must have really had a problem with Ghandi, MLK, and Desmond Tutu...

Rudy? No. Rudy doesn't know who they were.

Curt