Folks I just got hit by a brick. Haters, wipe that smile off your face, not literally but figuratively.

I’m having a conversation with a young college student, nice young man, great guy, and smart, involved but very Democrat and liberal.
He pokes me about some e-mails I sent to a colleague about the myth of global warming, from my essential stack of stuff internet pile and blog archives.

Just as most bloggers I read so much material and I try to organize and bookmark articles on various topics so when leftists run the standard talking points on whatever topic I can bombard them with information until they cry uncle.
However as many of you on the right know when we present those on the left with information its called “propaganda.”

Anywho, I’m talking to this young man and we chat a bit on global warming and other topics and he make a startling statement “there simply aren’t two sides to every issue, and global warming is one of those issues.”

Yes I know some of you are like well duh Snoop, that’s how all leftists think, but I was taken aback by his candor.

We then started talking about a few other issues, school vouchers being one. I asked, do you believe that a parent has a fundamental right to send their kids to the school of their choice. He would not answer (I told him to stop playing Hillary and answer) ah, but he was steadfast and said “any voucher program would destroy the foundation of public education.”

Now keep in mind this is a very well (won’t say rich kid, but close) off soon to be a degreed higher education graduate, private school taught.

While switching to various topics he brings up Fox News, he says “I bet you like Fox News because you like the combative nature of their reporting.” I asked him to clarify and he says;

“I want my news to be straight forward, I trust the people out in the field to give me an honest assessment on what is going on, I don’t need to have multiple sides of issues thrown at me, it’s not necessary and it does not accomplish anything. On issues like the war in Iraq, there are not two sides of that issue; we simply should not be there.”

So we switch gears and I ask about Hillary and her promoting the issues of drivers licenses for illegal immigrants, he says;

“she’s right, they should have drivers licenses, I don’t see what is wrong with that. Mainstream media sources would simply report how immigrants having licenses would be a good thing, Fox News however would report on the sinister nature of immigrants having licenses and report on all of the negative instances where illegal immigrants did something bad and would spin the issue in a negative manner”

Now people again, this is not some earth shattering revelation, but this comes from a very smart, driven young man who likely will be a CEO somewhere in the future or someone who I believe will be a big time politician one day, no joke.

I found this conversation enlightening, I don’t openly talk politics with people because like this blog I’m VERY honest about my opinions and some my take my candor the wrong way and frankly many are uncomfortable.

When I put my conversation with the young dude with the chat with my global warming alarmist 40 something co-worker (who says she can’t understand how anyone can not believe that global warming is real) I still can’t help but be struck by the level of resoluteness on issues that even they admittedly know little about.
My global warming friends’ main resource for knowledge on the issue is Gore’s Powerpoint flick!

I’m just left wondering how do you develop that kind of a closed mindset.

Now don’t get me wrong, as I have said, I’m very opinionated, and have very definite views, but even at my age I would never proclaim that there can’t be two sides to some of America’s most complex issues.

These two individuals are symptomatic of today’s liberal Democrats, brainwashed by MSM misinformation, and resistant to any line of thinking that would challenge their realities.

I don’t know whether or not to be amused or frightened.

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This entry was posted on Friday, November 2nd, 2007 at 11:02 am and is filed under Liberal Fun, Liberals, Liberal Education, Liberal Deception.
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