[Vigilanteman]

Agreed. There are some groups which are not only consistently wrong, but wrong as wrong can be. To surmise that their opinions might be as valid as groups that are wrong, say, 1% of the time, is just plain stupid.

Otherwise, I am guilty as charged as an independent thinker.

I once had a college professor who observed that free market economics had a lot of problems, including inequities. But it worked a hell of a lot better than any other system which had ever been tried.

[aquila48]

“But it worked a hell of a lot better than any other system which had ever been tried.”

Yeah, but how does it compare with this new shiny, just, fair system where everyone is equal and happy, that I came up with and that we haven’t tried yet?