| richardhutnik said:
There are times I get pretty tired of doing the same political stuff and watching people line up predictably in the same issues. It makes me wish for more discussion of your avatar and Star Wars coming home, than this stuff. |
I would argue that the core of the problem is presented in the original post quite clearly ...
A large portion of the problem with political discussions in the modern day is that people aren't willing to listen to the other side of the argument; and would rather resort to a logical fallacy like appeal to ridicule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_ridicule) than to gain understanding. Had spaceguy ever bothered to listen to what the Tea Party protests were really about he would have probably agreed with (well over) 2/3 of what they had to say ... and had the Occupy movement ever bothered to form a coherent message I'm sure most people would have probably agreed with 2/3 of what they had to say.
Most people are upset about the same basic things and there are people (knowingly or not) who are driving a wedge between everyone and preventing progress on these issues.
