You can live in your little fantasy with that cute little excuse
We have reached the shallow "I'm rubber you're glue" portion of debating with a liberal. Having no concrete grounding in knowledge of on-the-ground conditions or a political framework by which to understand the forces at hand, the "debater" actually escalates when challenged. Rather than becoming informed or reading a book or dealing with the points made directly, they engage in a thin pantomime of the rhetoric flung their way.
This is defensive behavior and what a poor handling of cognitive dissonance looks like. We've all been there, but you can choose to move on from this period in your life by just being honest with yourself. A good first step is to disengage when you don't know something - at least until you gain the knowledge or the alibility to gauge and admit when you don't know something.
There are many things I don't know, but I have a much nicer time in political discussions because I don't dig a hole for myself by blathering on about it and escalating when cornered.
We have reached the shallow "I'm rubber you're glue" portion of debating with a liberal. Having no concrete grounding in knowledge of on-the-ground conditions or a political framework by which to understand the forces at hand, the "debater" actually escalates when challenged. Rather than becoming informed or reading a book or dealing with the points made directly, they engage in a thin pantomime of the rhetoric flung their way.
This is defensive behavior and what a poor handling of cognitive dissonance looks like. We've all been there, but you can choose to move on from this period in your life by just being honest with yourself. A good first step is to disengage when you don't know something - at least until you gain the knowledge or the alibility to gauge and admit when you don't know something.
There are many things I don't know, but I have a much nicer time in political discussions because I don't dig a hole for myself by blathering on about it and escalating when cornered.