I’m really good at making my point. My liberal friends hate it because they have no comebacks.
My son tries to defend his positions but gets clobbered simply because he’s not quick witted in debates.
So you may want to think twice before going down this road because needing to take a time out to get some ammo/responses typically makes it look like you lost the argument.
You may be better served trying to find things you can agree on and work it from that angle. For example, this news article that the mainstream media is hiding: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20002423-38.html
Or just say isn’t it great we have the 1st amendment that protects their right to say what they are saying. Then you may want to make a simple point the media is failing the country. And ask why is it that the media covered the millino man march and praised it, but they ignored the tea party rallies until they couldn’t ignore them so they started attacking them. I’d ask probing questions to make them think...you won’t win in one round but you may end up winnning in the long run.
My most liberal friends now admit global warming is a scam (but they insist that it’s still good to recycle...they are stupid and think that for some reason if you didn’t believe in global warming you wanted dirty water and wanted to waste energy). They also agree the media is biased (but they still watch CNN). It’s a start...oh and they also are very ticked and unhappy with Obama!
It’s a long education. I can’t deprogram 40 years of government schooling overnight, but I’m working as fast as I can.
Finally you may want to find some quotes from Jefferson (a founding father who was a democrat). That’s always fun.
Sun Tzu would tell you (your son), to avoid playing to his enemy's strengths. In other words, don't engage them in a forum where one needs to be quick-witted. An on-line chatroom, or a blog is a terrible place to engage in a debate, because so many of them "pile on." Even if your son understands the arguments, and has facts on his side, it's useless if he can't have a forum in which to make a rebuttal.
Thank you....your points are well taken and will be applied.
They call tea partiers "birthers", "racists", and "violent".
Louis Fahrakhan has made racist statements about the Jews, crazy conspiracy theories (and claims to ride in an orbiting UFO mothership), etc.
He was a KEY speaker at the Million Man March (the MMM, supremacist movement).
The media has a side in this debate and pretends they don't. When voters put the Republican Party in charge of the House and Senate in 1994, a network anchor (Brokaw? Jennings?) said that American Threw A Temper Tantrum Last Night. Said it IN his news broadcast. What an insult to the majority of this nation. Peter Jennings lived in the United States for 20 years but didn't become a citizen until 2004 (I suspect to vote against Bush) and even then he proudly proclaimed himself to still hold Canadian citizenship (in direct violation of his naturalization loyalty oath).