No, it’s not a waste of time.
We need to invest time in knowing what the other side is thinking so we can counter them in political discussions and win debates and ultimately elections.
In my opinion it is. I don’t need to continually invest my attention and energies to “keep up” with the other side when I inherently know it is evil to the core and has nothing of value to offer me. To me that’s just an exercise in self abuse.
“No, it’s not a waste of time.
We need to invest time in knowing what the other side is thinking so we can counter them in political discussions and win debates and ultimately elections.”
I will guarantee you that the average conservative is infinitely more educated about issues and world events than any dim. I can also make a good bet that if you were to put a lib and a conservative together in a debating competition wherr the conservative has to debate as a lib, and the lib has to debate as a conservative, it would become very apparent very fast that conservatives know vastly more about lib arguments than vice versa. The problem is libs always argue like this
Conservative: any conservative point
Lib: memorized talking point #1 designed to sound almost reasonable if not examined closely
Conservative: responds with citable facts figures and statistics
Lib: memorized talking point #2, designed to distract away from the topic at hand, with enough “humor”’ that subtly makes the conservative look not only appear ignorant but stupid. This works best when the lib has other libs nearby that can be riled up.
3: conservative undetered returns to original topic discussion with more fact
Lib: changes subject more forcefully, starts using blatant ad-hominems questioning humanity of conservative. Charges of racism, sexism, and every other conceivale ism come out with a list of allegedly horrible things distqnt ancestors may or may not have done, with a modern list of alledged attrocities comitted by evil corporations and the koch brothers that I am indirectly responsible for because of white priveledge
There is only one thing in this world more fruitless than arguing with a liberal. That is Winning an argument with a woman..that should be the definition of “pyrrhic victory”