Well, let me provide you with two possible exchanges.
"I don't agree with the government spending on Medicaid at all!"
"Oh, cool, pleased-ta-meetcha, some of my best friends, and all that. Let's not argue politics, but I can listen to you grump once in a while if you'll put up with me occasionally feeling I have to offer challenges to particular points you raise."
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"Despite the widespread acceptance of a particular issue or program, and the lack of any serious challenge to those issues or programs, I'm going to claim that the issue or program is a violation of the Constitution!"
"Uh, yeah, well, good luck with that and all, and why don't you go take that argument to a constitutional lawyer, who, I'm sure, is going to receive your arguments warmly and help you go out and storm the capital and change the world. Assuming that it's as solid and obvious as you seem to think, and all."
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Date: 2009-02-06 06:40 am (UTC)"I don't agree with the government spending on Medicaid at all!"
"Oh, cool, pleased-ta-meetcha, some of my best friends, and all that. Let's not argue politics, but I can listen to you grump once in a while if you'll put up with me occasionally feeling I have to offer challenges to particular points you raise."
versus
"Despite the widespread acceptance of a particular issue or program, and the lack of any serious challenge to those issues or programs, I'm going to claim that the issue or program is a violation of the Constitution!"
"Uh, yeah, well, good luck with that and all, and why don't you go take that argument to a constitutional lawyer, who, I'm sure, is going to receive your arguments warmly and help you go out and storm the capital and change the world. Assuming that it's as solid and obvious as you seem to think, and all."