I often disagree with you about politics, BB, (and then sometimes too, we agree)...but you are dead right that the primary problem with communication here on political threads is that most of the people here determine "the truth" NOT on the basis of WHAT is said...but on the basis of WHO says it!

Thus, they are not really thinking at all. They're just engaging in standard reactions according to prior prejudice and conditioning...exactly like Pavlov's dog, they salivate when the bell rings, and they growl when the buzzer sounds. There's no real thinking at all, just knee-jerk reaction and a whole lot of hatred and ill will burning up the airwaves.

That's what makes it, frankly, an almost complete waste of anyone's time to engage in these political threads on Mudcat. It's just an endless rehashing of people's knee-jerk hatreds and prejudices and a public airing of their emotional dysfunctionality.

It's kind of entertaining, though, if one can see the funny side of it. ;-) And I often do. With that pleasant thought in mind, I shall leave you all to throw bricks at each other for another hundred or so posts.