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In reply to the discussion: Serious questions for those who are convinced that Obama, Clinton, and Gore are not liberals. [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)Where the data comes from matters.
When the UN Quality of Life indices support left wing claims about the benefits of social democracy, based upon, you know, actual living conditions, and when tea baggers have equally prestigious organizations and researchers who can back their claims, then get back to me.
But here all you did was make a claim with nothing to back it up other than a gross simplification and misrepresentation of the issue.
Look at the work of Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. Paul Krugman. Look at the work of Daniel Ariely, at Duke, who has spent his life looking at the way issues are framed and how that deforms U.S. opinion on issues... most famously recently when he noted that Americans are too stupid to know that their income distribution more closely aligns with banana republics than other western Democracies and, in fact, those Americans, when they did not have scare labels attached, thought Sweden and other social democracies of northern Europe had the most equitable income distribution.
So, now, again. I ask you.
What can you provide to back up your false equivalency?
I can go on and on - we can look at how religion harms the poor and dumbs down societies now, too.
What else would you like to claim without any evidence?