Anyway. Politics make me mad and stupid and a little self-contradictory.
...yeah. Politics makes me want to roll my eyes and beat my head against the wall. Mostly because it is filled with people who, while otherwise rational, argue in extremely annoying and impassioned ways about subjects for which not enough data exists (or can be twisted both ways!) to justify a clear-cut solution, plus which those arguing are almost always starting from a different set of assumptions (both factual and "what-we-think-is-important") but don't realize it, thus complicating the whole mess.
Um. Not that politics makes me mad either, or anything. :)
Somehow I've landed in a situation where about half the people I know and respect are conservatives, and the other half are liberals. Makes it kind of hard to demonize either side...
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Date: 2008-03-10 08:54 pm (UTC)...yeah. Politics makes me want to roll my eyes and beat my head against the wall. Mostly because it is filled with people who, while otherwise rational, argue in extremely annoying and impassioned ways about subjects for which not enough data exists (or can be twisted both ways!) to justify a clear-cut solution, plus which those arguing are almost always starting from a different set of assumptions (both factual and "what-we-think-is-important") but don't realize it, thus complicating the whole mess.
Um. Not that politics makes me mad either, or anything. :)
Somehow I've landed in a situation where about half the people I know and respect are conservatives, and the other half are liberals. Makes it kind of hard to demonize either side...