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Michelle*s_Farm
09-03-2009, 02:35 PM
bull shit, weak shit, or the cool shit?

CNN Article Entitled "Open Your Minds America"

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CNN) -- As people shout over each other and tune out diverging views in town hall meetings, the health care debate is proving to be symptomatic of a major ailment threatening our nation:

A contagious culture of closed-mindedness threatens to suffocate our progress as a society.

Why has it become so difficult to even consider changing our minds about important issues?


To read further:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/03/ruiz.closed.minds/index.html

yeahwho
09-03-2009, 07:59 PM
That is a very good read, it reminds me of when I first started going to AA meetings, the below quote was often repeated at meetings:

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
--HERBERT SPENCER

It points out something many people do (myself included), we dig our heels in our respective foxholes and lob ideological theory at each other and often it's to the delight of the politician because then the elected officials work is much easier.

Something that is really noticeable is the losing political side of the spectrum is always more pissed and obnoxious than the winning party.

So hey democrats, it's not rocket science, no matter what the issue, healthcare or Q-Tip technology, either way the extreme right finds you Nazi.