"your apparent broad-brush dismissal of sources to your political right" It's not as simple as that. I don't have time to read everything and I do have some respect for my own time and Heritage Foundation is simply below the salt. Fer chrissake, they believe in "market forces." They're nuts. Let me draw a parallel. I don't know it this i…
"your apparent broad-brush dismissal of sources to your political right"
It's not as simple as that. I don't have time to read everything and I do have some respect for my own time and Heritage Foundation is simply below the salt. Fer chrissake, they believe in "market forces." They're nuts.
Let me draw a parallel. I don't know it this is still observed but back in the HIV epidemic I went to donate blood and was turned down because I was gay. OK, nobody ever said that all gay men were HIV+ and not all HIV+ men were gay but the correlation was robust enough that it was simply prudent to not take blood donations from 5% of potential male blood donors.
Not everything on heritage.org is going to be batshit right-wing economics (one of the very lowest bars there is) but the same prudence applies there. Heritage promotes apologia for some of the most unhinged conservative ideas there are. And frankly I am going through soe serious emotional challenges right now and don't need to be aroused to murderous anger by reading this stuff. So I deliberately make myself a little less open-minded for my own mental health as well as out of respect for my increasingly limited time.
You know me well enough to know that I'm not too tribal in my liberalism. I'm a gay liberal who would gleefully throw the Woke "unterm Rad," I hold beliefs about personal responsibility that don't dovetail with the infinite tolerance and—ugh—inclusivity so in vogue.
And it's simply part of my outlook that I draw lines perhaps a little too comfortably. There are ideas like creationism, the morality of abortion, the history of the singular they, Lafferism, that I am unwilling to ever discuss again.
I don't wish to add to your stress or divert the conversation further. Someday we'll have to discuss economics since that is where the "left" seems to be the most in denial of reality to me. Your disdain for "market forces" always gives me pause. Another time, stay mellow now.
"your apparent broad-brush dismissal of sources to your political right"
It's not as simple as that. I don't have time to read everything and I do have some respect for my own time and Heritage Foundation is simply below the salt. Fer chrissake, they believe in "market forces." They're nuts.
Let me draw a parallel. I don't know it this is still observed but back in the HIV epidemic I went to donate blood and was turned down because I was gay. OK, nobody ever said that all gay men were HIV+ and not all HIV+ men were gay but the correlation was robust enough that it was simply prudent to not take blood donations from 5% of potential male blood donors.
Not everything on heritage.org is going to be batshit right-wing economics (one of the very lowest bars there is) but the same prudence applies there. Heritage promotes apologia for some of the most unhinged conservative ideas there are. And frankly I am going through soe serious emotional challenges right now and don't need to be aroused to murderous anger by reading this stuff. So I deliberately make myself a little less open-minded for my own mental health as well as out of respect for my increasingly limited time.
You know me well enough to know that I'm not too tribal in my liberalism. I'm a gay liberal who would gleefully throw the Woke "unterm Rad," I hold beliefs about personal responsibility that don't dovetail with the infinite tolerance and—ugh—inclusivity so in vogue.
And it's simply part of my outlook that I draw lines perhaps a little too comfortably. There are ideas like creationism, the morality of abortion, the history of the singular they, Lafferism, that I am unwilling to ever discuss again.
I don't wish to add to your stress or divert the conversation further. Someday we'll have to discuss economics since that is where the "left" seems to be the most in denial of reality to me. Your disdain for "market forces" always gives me pause. Another time, stay mellow now.