So anyone who disagrees with you has not given any deep thought to the
process you're discussing? 

Matt Small
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 9:18 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: how dumb do they think we are?

> Brian  wrote: 
> Aren't you taking something a bit more complex, and reducing it to
something
> simple?
> 

I think you're reading into what I wrote or maybe I was too short. 
Whichever, I'm not generalizing anyone, just giving you my theory.

I've been having these Bush vs Whoever arguments since 1999, and I
first heard the you-must-hate-Bush argument from people who I would
call simple-minded.  That doesn't mean stupid, it means simple in
thought; not venturing too far beyond their immediate day-to-day
lives.

Then I noticed another group of people using it - people with the
Rush/Sean/Fox News talking points in their head and will regurgitate
them if you poke them.  However they've not done much, if any,
critical thinking about the ramifications of the talking points which
frequently pushes them into a corner in a debate.

At this point these people turn to insults, veiled insults, and/or the
you-must-hate-Bush trick.  For example, anyone who truely thinks
invading Iraq helps us fight terrorism over there so we don't have to
fight it here.

If it takes you more than 2 or 3 seconds to admit how foolish that
concept is, you're in one of those groups.


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