Comments | lyricae: I have decided

lyricae

I have decided

Sep 08, 2008 19:06

That I am not interested in losing more friends by debating politics. I previously made several posts regarding Sarah Palin and I could make many many many more. However, previous election arguments have taught me that friends are more important than trying to convince someone I am right and they are wrong. I could keep arguing and others could ( Read more... )

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kathrynt September 9 2008, 16:40:45 UTC

I respect your decision immensely, but I have to say I'll miss 'em. OTOH I like feisty disagreement a lot, much like some people go boxing for stress relief.

lyricae September 9 2008, 17:09:53 UTC

Oddly, I really enjoyed the researching and information finding and all of that. I just worry that if I get too feisty I'm going to alienate people and I really really don't have so many friends that I can start losing them over politics.

llachglin September 9 2008, 17:21:58 UTC

For the record, you weren't alienating me. I like vigorous debate. But you were probably worrying more about the silent observers. I respect your decision.

lyricae September 9 2008, 21:44:45 UTC

Awesome. To be honest, my fear was a lot about debating with you. I've discovered as I've been looking at arguments for both sides and doing research and talking with my family and all of the things I've spent the last couple of weeks doing that I really enjoy the challenge. I'm enjoying looking at both candidates and their VP choices and saying, "Ok, I like this, I dislike this, I need to learn more about that" and then balancing my choices with what I'm learning. I could seriously blog about this all day and not get bored with it.

As long as we can agree that we're friends no matter how we differ politically then as far as I'm concerned we can agree to disagree on these issues. Q and I made that agreement years ago, but I've never spoken with you directly about it before.

wrog September 9 2008, 17:51:05 UTC

The effort may turn out to be ultimately futile, but it is never pointless. You never know for sure until you try. And I do value it when people can point out actual flaws in my arguments or facts that I've gotten wrong.

That said, you should also realize that there are rather a lot of externalities here, things that have happened in the past eight years (or earlier, in some cases). Sarah Palin could be the most wonderful, qualified, effective governor & vice-presidential candidate we've ever seen and Obama could have named a dead squirrel as his running mate and I would still be voting Democratic -- by which I mean an absolutely straight-D ticket all of the way down to the bottom -- for a wide variety of reasons.

So it would arguably be for the best if you don't view it as a personal failure that you haven't yet hit on the perfect argument to dissuade me from doing just that.

And it is also perfectly reasonable not want to spend one's time on efforts that are less likely to be productive. friends are more important than ( ... )