At any rate, wuf. Your stance on providing data is rendering you a troll.

If you're here to say polarizing thoughts which aren't backed by any link to reality, then you're really distracting from an otherwise productive exchange of ideas between people with different political ideologies who are honestly trying to understand the other side's positions w/o personal attacks or condemnation.

It's an amazing discussion going on, here.

I have, multiple times, had to delete entire sections of my posts because I realized that my position was stupid in the light of the new information I know and truth I see in my opposition's points. I get the sense that I'm not the only one.

Your notion that we're all entrenched in our positions and looking for reasons to we're already right - is misplaced, here, I think.
There's a reason FTR doesn't suck. This is a big part of it.

(And yeah, I've been a jerk in the past, but I hope I'm less of one now, in part because of FTR and my internet friends.)