>>Yes, I have disliked Bush from the beginning, and nothing he has done in office has given me reason to change my mind. (Please tell me what I am overlooking).
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>Nor, nothing he can do. If he walked up to your house and mowed your lawn you'd tell him the kid next door does it better.
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>>IMO your statement could be turned on its head and be equally true. Just as there are those who will rationalize their anti-Bush positions in all cases, there are those who will rationalize their pro-Bush positions in all cases.
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>True.
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>>I have been following politics for quite a while, probably longer than you have been alive (meaning no insult by that), and this is by far the most polarized we have been as a country. The late 60s and early 70s, which is when this political divide started, was duck soup compared to what we have now.
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>That is because political preferences have developed into dogmas.
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>You're not actually a thinking creature when it comes to this stuff.
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>Why? Because you have already done your thinking. Decades ago. It hasn't had a serious critical inspection in probably 20 years. By now your conclusions lie so deep within your thought process you are not likely to challenge them any time soon.
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>In fact, even after admiting your bias, you're going to read this and play it off in your mind.


Mike, you're a really sharp guy but you have the arrogance of the young. You think you know it all and you don't.

Re bias, I don't have any more than you do. They are just different biases. I would not call either of them biases so much as different belief systems.

So are you going to sign up for the Gulf Coast relief project? I bet you would be a stalwart. No politics, I promise.