Neanderpundit

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While discussing the post below with a well-respected friend, a few truths dawned on me that I guess were always in my mind but never found voice until that moment.

Most of my troubles with liberal vs conservative come to this: I base my politics on well documented fact. Anyone can disagree wiht those facts, and hell, once in a while, someone comes up wiht a disagreement that holds such water and is so irrefutable, that I change my opinion, based on the new evidence. Such is the nature of scientific thought.

Most if not all liberals I know, base their worldview on belief. Let me give you a few examples of fact vs belief:

Belief: Liberals fight for freedom of all people.
Fact: Conservatives have a long track record of actually providing freedom for people in this country and assisting other countries to become free.

Belief: Socialism is best for all.
Fact: Socialisim has failed every time it has been tried.

Belief: Embryonic stem cell research is the key to advances in science
Fact: Placental stem cell research has already provided cures for many diseases, amniotic stem cells have recently shown to be as effective and as adaptive as embryonic stem cells, and raise no moral issues.

Belief: Firearms are bad and cause crime
Fact: private ownership of firearms is a deterrent to crime.

Belief: Human Caused Global Warming exists.
Fact: The data isn’t there to support it, there is no way we can know, and we don’t know.

The idea that anyone votes one way or another based on what they believe astonishes me. it’s like jumping off a cliff believing that God will reach down his mighty hand and catch you- that God is on a spaceship waiting to come get you, that God will raise you up whole i the End Times Rapture. When you send your child to school, if you have a brain, you try to send him or her to a school that has a good reputation. When you buy a car, you buy it because it’s clearly faster, or handles better, or is safer than any other. Qualitative evidence exists to show you the facts, and you make those decisions based on those facts. You don’t buy a volvo because you BELIEVE it will protect you in a head on accident, unless you are an idiot. You research the facts, and act based on them. Faith belongs in the Creator. In politics I look at track record and results.