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> They're wrong on every issue if you assume that Obama is right no every issue. I was speaking specifically about the issues mentioned in the parent post. Nam
by coldpie 12y ago
> They're wrong on every issue if you assume that Obama is right no every issue.
I was speaking specifically about the issues mentioned in the parent post. Namely vaccination[1], evolution, and climate change. The Republican positions are objectively wrong on these issues. Projecting from there, it's not unreasonable to assume they're wrong on other issues that I know less about.
To be more explicit, I was disagreeing with this:
> I just think people who take a position of "It's an idea from the other political party so I don't like it" cause more harm than good.
If one party is consistently wrong on many, many obvious issues, I don't see much of an issue with dismissing their views on more nuanced issues. If you can't figure out something relatively simple like evolution, I don't have much faith in you figuring out national economics.
[1] See Christie and Rand Paul's recent statements
- mathattack 12y agoRepublicans have been right on other issues, just ones that I didn't mention. - Shortening unemployment insurance from 99 weeks did help nudge some folks back to work. - Encouraging housing development is better than rent control. Perhaps I just agree with the Democrats more on hard science, and the Republicans on the dismal science. The latter is (of course!) less amendable to hard and fast truths.