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Meghan McCain's recent departure from "The View" and her comments on her experiences there has made me realize something I never thought about.

While on Sean Hannity's show, Meghan spun a similar to story to what Dave Rubin has been saying for years, something along the lines of "I spent a significant amount of time around people who were at least nominally liberal and they weren't very nice to me, but my experiences around conservatives has been the total opposite." Listening to that made me realize that a great many times I've argued politics with people, they'll tell me that people of one belief are mean and nasty to them while people of another belief are welcoming and accepting. And now I'm thinking, does it really matter? If I were to meet every single person who agreed with my politics and they were jerks to me, and then I met every single person who is strongly opposed to my politics and they were really nice to me, would that change my opinion? Because it shouldn't, but at the same time, human nature might make it difficult to stick to convictions in a hypothetical situation like that.
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Zonuss · 41-45, M
Right or Left both sides are purposely flawed and equally incompetent.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@Zonuss Purposefully flawed? I'm not sure I understand.

I wouldn't say equally flawed, no. When you're debating something like "should we make insulin cheaper so diabetic people won't die?" and one said side yes and the other says no, one of those is the correct position and the other is not.
Zonuss · 41-45, M
@BlueMetalChick Wrong comparison. Equally incompetent. You gotta read it correctly ok dear. 🙂
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@Zonuss So explain to me how those two positions are equally flawed. What's the middle ground, give cheap insulin to half the world's diabetics and let the other half die?

What about the debate between continuing illegal wars or ending them? Those two positions are not equally incompetent. One is right and the other is wrong. Same with the debate whether or not to legalize drugs, or homosexual marriages.
Zonuss · 41-45, M
@BlueMetalChick Do you really believe that one party is corrupt and the other side is not. Really. Really. 🙄