Pyat makes a political prediction!

[pyat]

I predict John McCain will probably win the election down south, though perhaps by an inconcievably narrow margin. It strikes me that both sides draw support from very stratified classes of voters, and the numbers don't change much. (I ignore, for now, the possibility of coordinated voting fraud, though I do not think it a zany conspiracy theory. That sort of thing happens around the world, all the time.)

That said, choosing Palin as a veep will at least make the shallower sort of Republican happier about voting for McCain, because she's young(ish) and personable, and has never, ever sang "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" to the tune of "Barbara Ann".

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I just can't ever get a fair shake as I am outnumbered by the Competition.

You can't go wrong stating what it is you believe in, and stating clearly why the other fellow is wrong. On FM, at least, you mainly seem to just say that you're sick of left-wingers ranting about right-wingers. The discussion is generally one about respective attack ads, something someone else said in support of a candidate or party.

I don't think I've ever seen you offer counter arguments that addressed actual Democratic policies, or reasons why you support your candidate, or even whether or not you support a candidate. And, I stress to say, I have never seen you do so. For all I know, you actively talk about it elsewhere, or when I'm not around.

[leonard-arlotte.livejournal.com]

Trouble is, my friend, that while you are a rational and mostly sane individual, most people who feel strongly enough about their beliefs to argue about them on the Internet are so fanatical about those beliefs that they take any argument against them as a personal attack. Then they go batshit crazy and start spouting Latin at you, attacking the style of your argument instead of the actual words you said.

I don't like arguing with religious zealots, so I don't make the effort to discuss politics. It only ends in hurt feelings.

Every time.