Glenn Greenwald ain't no Libertarian, Part 1: Defending Social Security and Medicare

[MADem]

197. No I'm not. You're just angry because I don't see things the way you do.

That's why you're refocusing your conversational efforts towards me (in a disparaging fashion, too, I might add) instead of sticking to the topic.

This happens on message boards. People disagree. You shouldn't take it personally and you shouldn't lower yourself to lobbing petty insults.

Why would a recitation of my degrees or life and work experience make a difference to you? Do you "like" people more as a consequence of their educational and professional credentials? Is a Harvard degree better or worse than an Oxford one? How about someone who has both? Do they get bonus points? Is working in government a plus or a minus?

I can see not wanting to take medical advice over the internet from just any old bozo, but I'm not playing a doctor, here.

I'll take a good idea from someone with a fourth grade education, over someone like W with a Harvard Business School sheepskin...but that's just me. It's the quality of the argument that compels me, not where the debater went to college or graduate school.