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To: wideawake
What does it portend that everyone seems to take a demographic argument personally? Are we incapable of viewing trends and commenting on aggregate behavior?

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226 posted on 10/10/2006 11:28:01 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave; wideawake
What does it portend that everyone seems to take a demographic argument personally? Are we incapable of viewing trends and commenting on aggregate behavior?

It could be a symptom of a guilty conscience.

242 posted on 10/10/2006 11:39:00 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world." - Pope Blessed Pius IX)
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To: SoothingDave
Huh? People take (ostensibly) green-eyeshade columns by Paul Krugman about the deficit personally because they perceive an agenda (You selfish people should pay more taxes!). People take (supposedly) sympathetic comments from Sarah Brady about the Lancaster County school shootings personally because they perceive an agenda (You right-wing troglodytes ought be let the government take away your guns!).

What part of this progression eludes you?

282 posted on 10/10/2006 11:56:13 AM PDT by steve-b (It's hard to be religious when certain people don't get struck by lightning.)
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