Quote: "When I'm the only person arguing constantly in support of an entire side of a debate always"
Matt there are a fair amount of liberals on this board, I would go so far as to say they outnumber the conservatives, and perhaps like myself a few independents. If you find yourself the only member on one side of an argument perhaps it is because you go to far and blur your opinion into "facts" and people love to tear holes in something like that.
as for the following
Quote: "* Bush is a flaming idiot/ Worst president ever: FACT (easily proven)"
No its not fact its opinion, people say this about every incumbent, approval rating polls mean nothing history is the judge of these things. I remember growing up during the Carter years and my parents were bell bottom wearing ultra liberals and they even hated him and how much people hated him showed by not getting a second term. But look at him now people have mostly forgotten the negative and look at his work with Habitat for Humanity. Reagan was despised, and what happened last year he got voted the greatest american of all time. People, especially the youth, have forever and likely will forever hate the current administration whether Mother Terresa were our president or Jeffrey Dahlmer.
Quote: "* Wal-Mart is Evil: FACT (easily proven)"
Though I despise Wal-Mart, I can't call them evil since they are just a product of free-enterprise, peoples desire to pay as little as possible for something, and accountability to their shareholders. This is OUR fault! We refuse to buy American, or at least from countries with a pay scale close to our own, in favor of saving a buck. If we as citizens want to fix the outsourcing/over seas manufacturing of our jobs we need to wake up.
Quote: "* PS3 will be the top console: FACT (time will prove it for me)"
Who knows here, there are so many factors how you can claim fact is beyond me. Will it continue to be delayed? Will companies start making more (only on console x) games? Will the world end before it finally hits the shelves?
Quote: "* I've seen racism in the south: FACT (not as easily proven but it can be done)"
Of course that is a fact, and it is a fact there is racism in the North, East, West, and on some remote little island not on any of our maps. Heck you go forward several hundred years to the time of the federation (an enlightened time) and there is still racism. It will never go away, though it will abate and become less common.
Quote: "* Americans don't like gay people (If you really need more stats, I'll be happy to dig them up)"
Quit making generalized statements like this, you are wrong. Individuals don't like gay people, Americans are fine. This goes to the old "All golden retrievers are dogs but not all dogs are golden retrivers" addage. Polls are worthless, if you have taken statistics you know that you can prove or disprove anything with the same data, plus the polls are always biased so there is no way to derive any answer but the one the pollsters are looking for. There should actually be no laws regarding marriage in any way, our government should have kept its darn nose out of regulating religious ceremonies. If you want to be recognized by the government, whether a hetero or homosexual couple, it should be done as a civil union.
Quote: "* Religion brainwashes people at a young age/ religious people don't "decide" to be religious: FACT (easily proven/ common sense)"
I could agree on this if it were not for the "decide" part of your statement. No matter the religion people do "Decide" to be religious or not, in the matter of chritianity does the person "decide" to accept JC as a saviour. Alot of people, including adults, go to church out of habit, spend their time in church thinking about the packers game later that day or whatever. To them religion is a burden, but they bear it. These people choose to say they are of so-and-so denomination but they are not truly religious. Others have "Faith" they truly believe with all their heart in the almighty and whatever, these people have "Decided" to be religious.
As for brainwashing, to an extent yes, but what isn't brainwashed into us? Our perception of beauty. When you say a girl is really HOT, how do you know?. oh yeah, society told you. think about the everyday things you accept as fact that are fact only because you were raised in a society that believes it.
