Dear T:

I am proud to be a liberal, as I believe it is the intellectual and moral legascy of our best forebears. And I am open to believing anything that can be verified, and many things that cannot be, immediately. I do have some criteria that have to be met. One is consistency, internally, and a logical alignment between the data being presented and what I nknow of how the world works. The less consistent the information is with what I have collected about similar situations, the closer I have to look at it before granting it credence.

It has nothing to do with the desire tobelileve x or y.

Another factor is reasonable assessment of importances. Getting all tied up around a blue dress, but ignoring slaughter en masse on foreign fields is an example of an inversion of a sense of importances.

A