I try to not have my blog be political but sometimes I digress and this post is one of those times.  I have made it no secret that I am politically conservative.  I don’t think I am rabidly conservative but I am conservative nonetheless.  If I had to pigeonhole myself I would describe my beliefs as Constitutionally Conservative with a side order or social conservatism.  Here goes. Why is it that political discourse has become so dissonant?  This question strikes me occasionally and it hit me again this morning.
I comment quite often on the website of the American Thinker (AT), A conservtaive webzine.  This post was precipitated by one of the discussion threads on AT.  The thread was regarding a piece about the difficulty in establishing exactly how many gay men there are in America. I made a comment and as occasionally happens a liberal troll pops up and immediately starts with the insults.  The entire comment thread that got me thinking is below:
Now what got me is the childish nature of the replies and of course I stooped to such at the end because he succeeded in getting my goat.
It is almost as though liberals cannot believe we don€™t take the rightness of their positions as self-evident and therefor they have no need to defend their position. I think that statement just about sums it up. Also, as a generalization, most of them like to yell to drown you out. Insults serve the same purpose. It’s a type of intimidation.
What gets me the most is that in general I have the impression that most conservatives don’t say anything online they would not be willing to say to someone’s face. I know that is my policy. I get the impression that most liberals use the freedom and especially anonymity of the internet to say things they would never say face to face. I cannot count the number of times a liberal has replied to one of my posts with what I would consider fightin’ words. Yet I have never had an across the table conversation with one where that has happened They get loud and obnoxious but are too craven to resort to the kinds of insults and spitefulness they spew online.
Lastly, they blame the lack of discourse and political gridlock on conservatives, which I find laughable. It is hard to have a discussion with an unreasonable person.
It is!
It’s horrible isn’t it?
Not just americans “discuss” like that. Whenever I prove people wrong using science, I get insulted in Germany as well. Especially green party members and socialists tend to use this awesome way of preaching their ways to other people.