Political Polarization

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John Stewart is the king of "It's true because it's funny" in my opinion. I appreciate pointing and laughing as much as the next guy but I don't see John Stewart as particularly insightful.

I just don't care for him to much. I like Colbert much more

 

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John Stewart is the king of "It's true because it's funny" in my opinion. I appreciate pointing and laughing as much as the next guy but I don't see John Stewart as particularly insightful.

I agree. I tend to agree with Stewart's politics, and he's not stupid, but I would never refer to him as a leader or as someone with true positive contributions.

 

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Regarding (1) You're wrong. Mocking takes a side, attacking one side, and supporting it's opposite. Opposites do exist with most of John Stewart's mockings.

I never said anything opposing part (2).

At this point we could get into the nitty gritty of the semantics of the word "opposite". I submit to you that a more accurate opposite of being in favor of totalitarianism is being against totalitarianism.

I'm not going to try to convince you of 1). "Mocking takes a side, attacking one side, and supporting it's opposite." is opposing what I said in 2). However, I'm sure you don't see it that way, and the limits of the human capacity for cognitive dissonance knows no bounds.