Conservatives can be nuts too.

[pancreasman]

It might be easier to just have a unifying thread devoted to stupid people everywhere, of any political persuasion.

Or conversely, how about we just don't whine about the world going to hell in a hand basket.

[JonathanL]

Or conversely, how about we just don't whine about the world going to hell in a hand basket.

That's silly, the world doesn't fit in a hand basket.

[Darth Executor]

Absolutely not. And that is entirely my point! Civics is routinely filled with threads whining about allegedly dumb things some liberal somewhere has done. What's the point?

Yes, we complain about the things you do. You complain about the things conservatives say. Which exposes a whole different kind of gap, where you act out on your vicious stupidity to the harm of others while even being told you're wrong sends you on an apoplectic rampage (IE: hate speech laws).

[Starlight]

I saw two stories today which are just begging to be cited in this thread:


Same-sex marriage causes abortions

Forcing States to Recognize Gay Marriage Could Increase Number of Abortions
On the surface, abortion and same-sex marriage may seem unrelated. However, as explained in an amicus brief of 100 scholars of marriage, filed in the pending Supreme Court marriage cases and summarized here, the two are closely linked in a short and simple causal chain that the Supreme Court would be wise not to set in motion.

from here


The real problem with income inequality is that the rich are being taxed too much.

Taxes are through the roof on affluent Americans and business profits, but for the rest of Americans things are not so bad.

from here

[Epoetker]

I saw two stories today which are just begging to be cited in this thread:


Same-sex marriage causes abortions

Forcing States to Recognize Gay Marriage Could Increase Number of Abortions
On the surface, abortion and same-sex marriage may seem unrelated. However, as explained in an amicus brief of 100 scholars of marriage, filed in the pending Supreme Court marriage cases and summarized here, the two are closely linked in a short and simple causal chain that the Supreme Court would be wise not to set in motion.

from here


The real problem with income inequality is that the rich are being taxed too much.

Taxes are through the roof on affluent Americans and business profits, but for the rest of Americans things are not so bad.

from here

Neither are really nuts, the conclusions of the first follow from basic mathematical logic, the second from basic life experience. Neither of which, I grant, a liberal is likely to have, so they go on making mountains out of molehills and repeating their opponents, but with a smarmy or dumb voice a la John Stewart.