Respectfully, do you feel this is constructive discourse? Because to me the purpose of your comment is to drag down other comments, even yet unmade ones, into

Respectfully, do you feel this is constructive discourse? Because to me the purpose of your comment is to drag down other comments, even yet unmade ones, into the mud. Invalidating everyone's opinion on this subject except 0.1% of the population (namely very specific experts). Even politicians or professional political commentators wouldn't meet your high bar. And to the people who do feel like the bar should be set at "only experts are allowed an opinion" then why stop on this issue? Why not branch it out to every major political issue? Plus seemingly being well read on a topic is no longer enough to have an informed opinion, qualifications are the only metric by which we can measure an argument rather than the qualities of the argument itself. My point is that this is a dangerous argument that only seeks to result in the silence of commentators. It only detracts rather than adds to the discussion's value.