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I have no doubt there are people here to divide us. My purpose here is to get every single person in this country to agree with my point of view about every subject of importance to the country.

Or to be persuaded by intelligent rebuttal that I am wrong, so I can adopt a better position and get every single person in the country to agree with my point of view.

Isn’t that what everybody really wants? To convince the world that they are right? The only possible distinction between me and a common person is that I am not “ideological”, in that I am looking for defensible positions and will change if logic dictates, rather than dismiss logic if it refutes my beliefs.

I’ve never understood people who didn’t believe they were right about everything they believed. Why would you believe anything that you thought was wrong?

Anyway, that’s why I am here, and to divide would be a waste of my time and would be at odds with my goal. In fact, I’m probably more conciliatory than most people would like me to be, some see me as being unprincipled and a “compromiser”, because I specifically want to try to avoid alienating anybody. I won’t likely convince them they are wrong and I am right if I’ve antagonised them to blindly and emotionally reject my arguments.

I will not pass judgment on EV’s purpose for existance, he can answer to his own life. I am simply of the opinion that his POV regarding Thompson in the CFR matter, while strident, is not a smear campaign, and is a valid basis for discussion on this, a political discussion forum.

It’s not like he repeated without evidence that Thompson was a mormon, or called Reagan an abortionist after it was pointed out that Reagan was always pro-life, and thought the bill he signed would advance the pro-life cause.