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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Mookie, I'll say the same thing to you that I say to anyone I hear criticizing Utah drivers: Never forget, you are one.
You are the American electorate. Some of them are, as you say, not so well informed. I actually place myself in that category. Others are very well informed indeed. But whether you are one or the other is unknowable at best. Inform yourself all you like, you have to face the possibility that you could still be wrong. And others need to face the idea that you could be right.
And it's true that the great majority don't know and don't care, but you do indeed make it sound like you know what's best for them, and they should listen only to you. As I've tried to remind others, it's how you say it that comes across.
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Steve, as always I defer to your wisdom.
However I do take issue with one thing: "but you do indeed make it sound like you know what's best for them, and they should listen only to you." In this case, I was not arguing any side of an issue, I was making a point about the state of the average American voter. My lament is that honest and informed discussion has been replaced by polemics and ideological dogmatic talking points, fed to people by the talking heads on the TV. And I do try to consider alternative points of view - I posted a link from "The American Conservative" magazine earlier today. I was clicking through some of the articles on that site and found a lot of them surprisingly well reasoned and sound - even though I disagreed, it was very well informed commentary without the hand waving proclamations of doom about sleeper cell Manchurian Candidate presidents.