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Debating with Liberals is sometimes an exercise in futility. The first thing they do when they know you are a Conservative is to attack you personally. Most of them abhor Christians and immediately start their attack based on their preconceived notion that all Conservatives are Evangelists. They have been dumbfounded when I've informed them in the past that I was Atheist (Later Agnostic-Now Christian) and then find themselves unable to hold their own on the issues. I have been involved in online debates with these people and have noticed that when they lose the argument at hand, they find something else to attack their opponent on, simply because of their preconceptions.

For example, on Youtube today, I was involved in a debate concerning stem-cell research and Michael J. Fox with a group of Liberals. I handily defeated all of them in this argument by turning their personal attacks on me against them. They made too many assumptions about me based on their preconceived stereotypes of conservatives. They really think they "know" their opponent based on their extremely narrow world-view. (It's funny to watch them accuse me of being narrow-minded when it's more true about them.)

I've been called a "Nazi", "Stupid", "Ignorant", "Redneck", "Simple-Minded", "Brain-Dead" and various other epithets by people who had less knowledge of events, history and Politics than myself. They really do think they are right and their minds cannot be changed, but at the same time I ALWAYS QUESTION AND DEFEND MY OWN VIEWS, which mostly just leads to refining them, as opposed to changing them. But at least my mind remains open and can be changed, which is more than I can say for them.

The funniest thing in a debate is when they change the subject and try to attack you on other issues. I merely inform them that they have conceded the debate by changing the subject and if I have an opinion on that subject it will be on the appropriate forum if it interests me. I tell them that "I'm not running for President." Shuts them up pretty quick.

Once in awhile you can find an honest Liberal who won't personally attack you. This is very rare, though.

This mirrors my experience with Liberals exactly. Mostly they remind me of kids when I was in Jr. High ... they form cliques ... you are either in (you conform) or out (you think for yourself).

Good luck with that. YouTube is swarming with name-calling numbskulls, the vast majority of them lefties. I doubt many of them will even understand when they've soundly been defeated.

"Avoid foolish arguments, genealogies, rivalries, and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and futile. After a first and second warning, break off contact with a heretic, realizing that such a person is perverted and sinful and stands self-condemned" (Tit. 3:9–11).

Good post. Pretty much summarizes my interactions with Lefties on a couple of forums, on a wide range of issues.