Why So Many Conservatives Accept the WC or Just Don't Care

[Joe Elliott]

As it was with Japan...Vietnam has become the better country after all is said and done.

Agreed. The authoritarian regime they live under is making good choices. They have better leadership than they had back in the 1950’s and 1960’s. And those bad leaders back then, while supported by the United States, were dictators.

However, all governments, authoritarian or democratic, eventually go bad. The difference is that with democratic countries, the people eventually wise up and elect different people. Eventually, the situation generally gets sorted out. With authoritarian governments, the dictator, or the ones in charge, might decide they want to remain in power. And the people can’t put things right without a revolution. Which can be easier said than done.

Vietnam is doing ok now. But some day, it is going to go south on them. It always does. Without democracy, they are doomed.

[Charles Collins]

1) By necessity a "simplification" is incomplete.
2) The simplification I presented does include the second part of your answer.
3) I did answer your question logically.
4) It's you who looks ridiculous, crying like a baby because you don't like what you hear.

PS: You didn't answer the questionnaire.

Responding to your four items above:

1. No it is not. A proper simplification should include the essential elements. Yours does not.
2. No, the simplification you provided completely ignores the second part of my answer.
3. No, you dishonestly only responded to the first sentence.
4. You are the one who cannot even answer a question honestly.


If you had been honest and included my full response:

One of the most intelligent persons that I have ever known told me so almost 50-years ago. And, since then, I have found from my own experiences that it is true (in general).

Then you would have had to respond to the meaning of both sentences together instead of only responding to the first sentence. And since you appear to need the meaning of both sentences together spelled out for you, it essentially means that almost 50-years of personal experience has confirmed that what I was told way back then is true. This is in agreement with what I stated in my response in post #2 of this thread:

I will stay away from the political stuff. But would like to add that in my experience, in general,  conservative folks tend to be more logical. And, in general, liberal folks tend to be more emotional.

Your example of your “logic” and your silly questionnaire are not worthy of response. When you learn how to properly apply logic, try again.

[Jerry Freeman]

Why So Many Leftists Reject the WC Because One of Their Own Killed Kennedy

That would not have been "a leftest" Lyndon Johnson. LBJ was a Dixiecrat [Southern conservative]
Sure... he signed the civil rights bill...  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
For two major reasons ----1... Black votes to get elected in1964 and re-elected in 1968.
2...review---- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots

[Richard Smith]

In my experience, in general, conservative folks tend to accept the word of authority more readily than liberal folks do.

That may have been once true in the 1960s but no longer.  A sea change with liberals now espousing obedience to governmental authority or else.  It's the conservatives who are questioning what they have been told by the government.

[John Iacoletti]

Here's a fellow who's to the extreme right of most American conservatives. Yet he's an "Independent." Next he'll be telling us he's a "Skeptic" rather than a JFK conspiracy theorist.

The distinction is not difficult. It you have a conspiracy theory, then you are a conspiracy theorist. If you question unsubstantiated claims made by pundits or authority figures, then you’re a skeptic.

The LNers don't proclaim the WR as if it's Gospel. Whether Right or Left, LNers follow the evidence if it's better

LNers believe whatever is necessary to keep their myth alive.

[Michael Walton]

Just for the fun of it, let's just briefly consider another case. Let's consider the OJ Simpson case. Conservatives and libs alike here - what are your thoughts on the OJ case? Did the prosecutor or defense get it right? Was the jury correct in acquitting him? And whatever your response is, why do you think so?

[Michael Walton]

Just for the fun of it, let's just briefly consider another case. Let's consider the OJ Simpson case. Conservatives and libs alike here - what are your thoughts on the OJ case? Did the prosecutor or defense get it right? Was the jury correct in acquitting him? And whatever your response is, why do you think so?

Bumping this because no one really ever wants to discuss the merits. It's always you say-I say on here and it's pretty xxxxxxxxx boring.