It took me a long time to realize that liberals really believe most of the things they say. I used to think that they were so hysterical and paranoid that it must just be an act to try to influence public opinion. Now it seems that they really do believe those things, and that is a bit frightening. If we don't share a common reality, if our actual perceptions - not just our policy preferences or values - are so fundamentally dissimilar, what hope is there for civility?
If we don't share a common reality, if our actual perceptions - not just our policy preferences or values - are so fundamentally dissimilar, what hope is there for civility? Steve, I don't believe that we do share a common reality.
I pretty much gave up even talking to those on the Left about mid-way through the Clinton depredations, because it was obvious that no facts, evidence or anything else mattered to them anymore.
Pat Moynihan, one of the few whom I admired, once noted,
"We are all entitled to different opinions- what we are all not entitled to is our own set of facts..."
Obviously, if the person you are debating keeps shifting the "facts" to reach their desired conclusion, you cannot debate them. It's a pity, but that seems to be the way it now is in America.