Your first sentence renders anything you might say after that meaningless. You have already concluded in your own mind that only your opinion is valid and that any contrary opinion must necessarily come from someone who is "an idiot not smart enough to debate the issues". That is the problem with the boards. Many posters begin posts with their own opinions which they mistakenly equate to irrefutable facts. This relegates their conclusions to nothing more than meaningless partisan babble. Constantly using superlatives as the worst or biggest this or that is nothing more than stating subjective opinions. Your 2nd sentence is an example of this. You incorrectly say that "EVERYTHING RJ said was correct" when, in fact, most of what RJ said was just his own opinion. RJ is one of the worst offenders of this "lump everything into absolute superlative descriptions" because RJ seems to be convinced that he alone holds the ultimate truths.
There are many similarities between these boards and college campuses today. Contrary to the stated motto at the top of this page...and like the college & university campuses today...these boards are not interested in discussing anything freely. On the contrary, the boards have shown by their actions that they are committed to silencing viewpoints that do not conform to their own.....just as is the case on the campuses, where the overwhelming majority of professors are decidedly liberal and the overwhelming percentage of visiting speakers are merely echoing the professors' liberal positions. Colleges are not teaching students today. They are indoctrinating them. So, I guess the overwhelming mindset on these boards is the end result of this and is to be expected. Maybe the boards will turn away from silencing opposing opinions, but based on past decisions, I am not hopeful that this will happen.
Finally, I would address the initial reason for your response....which was my response to milhouse. He could shed some light on that but has chosen not to do so. He evidently thinks he should be able to ask questions and expect answers, but that he should not be required to answer questions asked of him. In that regard, I will publicly state the question I asked to him privately, since the only answer he gave me was "huh?".
Originally Posted by deacgolfer
Let's forget about Donald Trump the person for a minute. I can understand why some people don't like Trump personally. He is arrogant and has a giant oversized ego. What I want to ask you about, though, is not your feelings about Trump as a person, but about the relative merits of the two political party platforms. Do you REALLY favor the Democrats' emerging platform policies over the Republican platform policies? And if you do, why? Open borders? Forgiving debt? Free college tuition? Green New Deal? Medicare 4 All? Wealth tax? Do you REALLY support these ideas?
Milhouse: huh?