PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE

From time to time I am reminded of how difficult it is to bring people to a point of unbiased objectivity. To "remove" themselves from "self", take a step back, look at all the evidence, and re-examine their core beliefs. To look at an issue with a fresh perspective and ask themselves "could I possibly have been wrong about this all these years?"
I constantly run into the "it can't happen here" attitude. The "all this stuff is faked and / or spun by right wing conspiracy fanatics" idea. And not only that, but that the vast majority of "Tea Party" type people are stupid, uneducated, bigoted, fools who are easily duped. Meanwhile, they dismiss  anything that doesn't agree with their worldview, or even worse, in the course of a debate they eventually concede that every piece of evidence you present, every point you make is true, but their last statement is "well, I don't care, this is how I feel (or this is what I think) about it.

(Yes, I know the same thing happens on the "right". All blacks and Hispanics are lazy welfare sucking criminals. Obama is the cause of everything wrong with our economy and country, etc. Stupid is not confined to one political viewpoint.)

Yes, there are a lot of total b.s. reports out there. Anyone can write anything on the Internet. That doesn't mean you ignore the thousands of well researched articles with unimpeachable documentation.  


Our current national gun control bruhaha is a perfect example. People are denying that the end goal of the gun control advocates is to outlaw the personal ownership of all firearms. Denying that the long term agenda is confiscation of Americans weapons. They completely ignore or are ignorant of recent history. You can cite Nazi Germany, the USSR, China, Cuba, and EVEN MORE RECENTLY, England, Australia, and Canada. People, get your heads out of the sand! First they fingerprint owners and register every weapon. Then, some years later when everyone has relaxed and accepted this as the norm, another incident like Sandy Hook will be used as the impetus for confiscation. Oh yes, it starts as a voluntary "turning in". But guess what folks? If you don't bring them in, they'll come and get them.

This is from right next door : Canada    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_52pMg8qQcc

I concede liberals are correct that the chances of bills containing those kinds of measures don't stand much of a chance of being enacted by Congress AT THIS TIME. Even the majority of Democrats realize that would be political suicide right now. But these people are not going to abandon their agenda. It's been going on for the last 30 years or so, and they are not going to quit now. How about the next Congress, after the next poor bugger driven insane by doctor prescribed psychotropic drugs kills a bunch more?  After the Democrats succeed in allowing a million more illegal aliens, (oh, excuse me that's undocumented workers) who never even paid taxes, vote in the next election?

Someone recently asked me "what freedoms have we lost in this country?" Avoiding endless repetition, here is the latest to hit the news. http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/homeland-security-approves-seizure-of-cell-phones-and-laptops-within-100-miles-of-border-report-remains-secret-130211?news=847030
Verified here:
http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-immigrants-rights-national-security/aclu-files-foia-request-unreleased

Remember, piece by piece, one small step at a time, is how they do it.

We have certain standards in our Justice system. One is THE PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE. If the preponderance of evidence says the accused is guilty, then you must vote to convict. If you are one of the people referenced in the beginning of this post, can you honestly say that you have thoroughly examined the evidence?

Dumb Farmer