07-06-2017, 02:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-06-2017, 02:39 PM by Eric the Green.)
(07-06-2017, 01:48 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(07-06-2017, 11:37 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: To compare Oliver with the NRA, is to go crazy.
This is sort of your tradition. Anyone who disagrees with you must be evil, insane, brainwashed, stupid or otherwise subhuman, and to be subdued or defeated. I disagree. There are solid reasons for existence of most major worldviews, and a holder of that worldview will cling to it when others may have moved on.
Oliver is an extreme partisan. He has an audience and an agenda. So does the NRA. Both are very very biased towards their particular extreme positions. It may be that as you are blindly loyal to one of these positions you are incapable of viewing the situation objectively.
May be? Did I word that too weakly?
NRA is not a world view. It is a gun lobby (with various other functions as X_AD_84 said). You, on the other hand, have a world view (or something) that says it's good to insult people on a forum, but not to speak the truth about people who have out of date worldviews, prejudices and misinformation. As you have about Mr. Oliver and the NRA.
It is not wrong to be an extreme partisan, if that happens to be where the truth is at the time. Being in the middle of current views is no virtue at all.