Wellsie
Wellsie
Feb 23, 2017 · 2 min read

I want to read this more carefully when I have time, and had wanted to give your arguments some consideration and investigation. But right off the bat, a flag goes up for me when I see FAKE NEWS — and you capitalized it to make sure it was noticed. Fake news is pizza-gate — it’s not sincere differences of opinion about a very complex and hard-t0–prove (either way) issue. On a first glance — the polar bear info you site is misleading. Yes, there are some reports of increasing populations, but population estimates are just that- estimates. Accurate counts are extremely difficult to obtain for many reasons, so while you’re saying that people making the case about global warming are wrong about that, people making the case disputing it (notice I used disput and not deny) are most likely wrong too.

The next thing that raises a flag for me is your response to a reply: Moronic response. Hurl insults. No facts.
This is one of my major beefs with democrats today. They seem incapable of sincere debate. Everything is so angry it turns to insults and attacks as if it is self-evident they are right.

I will give you that the response to you could have been more nuanced ;-) — but my experience (and that of many other educated, rational, kind, and open-minded people I’ve discussed this with who have a range of political opinions) has been EXACTLY the opposite. There are extremes on both sides, but I think that one of the problems the Democrats have often had stems from being very polite and trying to see the other’s point of view. Outside of a Keith Olbermann or Michael Moore (and I find them mostly rational, if not always pleasant), we don’t have nearly the number or intensity of angry pundits/followers relying on baseless arguments (see Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, O’Reilly, Alex Jones, Milo, and on and on). Then until this past election (and I’m including the Bush years), the ration of nasty, horrific and violent commenters on social media and elsewhere was no contest in the direction of the right. Again, lefties being very polite most of the time. AGAIN, many exceptions to every rule. I’m not a fan of violence or nastiness from either side. But this rewriting of history is just baffling me.

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