Is it possible for neocons to make a point without resorting to insults and name calling?
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Some of the original neo-conservatives, like Irving Kristol, can actually formulate intellectual arguments. Among the newer neo-conservatives, very rarely, David Frum and Charles Krauthammer make some sense.\n\nBut by and large, no. The mainstream neo-conservative pundits of the press rely almost solely on sarcasm, snide belittling, red herrings, and straw men. Some of the worst offenders are Jonah Goldberg and Mark Steyn, who are basically just mean.
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I have said it 100 times on here it seems like and I will continue to until these questions stop. There are people on here who are on the left who call Bush and Republicans names on a daily basis and they get up in arms when some one on the right acts like they do. \n\nShe says some absolutely outrageous things, but so does Al Franken, Bill Mahrer, Howard Dean, and Al Gore. Don't be a hypocrite.
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NeoCons and many other less radical kinds of people will think that they are not Anti-American but rather Patriotic Americans sticking up for America, against those wishy-washy "liberal" dumb butts.\n\nIt totally escapes them, of course, that they confuse patriotism with chauvinism, which is a prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's group or kind and a fanatical glorification of one's country.  Such people are not influenced by reason or common sense, and it is largely hopeless to talk to them.\n\nBut there is value in accurately describing them and pinning the correct labels on them: chauvinist, unthinking, hate-mongering rabble rousers hiding behind a patriotic facade.
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Most Neo-cons talk the talk, but they can not walk the walk!
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Yes and no. Yes because either criticism or slamming U.S. foreign policy is seen as a one way ticket to sitting with the radical left. No, Americans tend to overcome their sensitivity with humor or do not care much for different point of views. It seems everyone tends to walk on eggshells now a days.
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Good point!\n\nAnother neo-con attempt to enlarge government, and control.
782237
The democrats views should not be criticized. The common problem with politics today is that instead of giving helping and constructive criticism, we just say mean things to each other. Dreadful.
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All of these answers in general, and this sophomoric question specifically, are AWESOME.\n\nIt's radical statements like these that continue to turn people off to the DNC when they hit the voting booth.\n\nPLEASE, PLEASE KEEP IT UP.
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It's the NEOCON way, do as as say and not as I do.
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Yes, thank you for pointing that out.\nThis could be a great forum for intelligent debate from both sides, but instead it tends to be more just generalized name calling back and forth.\nLet's use this forum to talk about serious issues and have an intelligent debate, maybe we can learn more about each others views and do some good.
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Sometimes, but it could also mean that you asked a question that was really none of your business.  Also, maybe the person can think of retorts but chooses to take a more mature stance rather than waste their time exchanging insults.
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There are two general ways of responding to an argument you disagree with: providing your own counter argument, or trying to silence the person, shut the argument down. In my experience, people tend to resort to the latter when they lack the eloquence or ideological consistency to develop their own rational argument. It's basically a panic reaction of being unable to defend their own position, but refusing to either admit this to themselves, or engage with the alternative point of view. Personally, I think that if you have a strong and consistent argument, it would be able to "defeat" alternative points of view purely through the strategy of confrontation and argumentation.\n\nSo if I were you, I would take the removal as a compliment. It means you've asked a question they can't answer!
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Oooh this is a good question. Let's just say that a Neocon is sort of a like a dog in that he only sees in Black and White. The Neocon has no use for debate or dialogue. It's his way or the highway.\n\nToday's Neocons really believe that we are under grave threat, but they don't have the time or inclination to understand why and what we could do to pull the  "barb from the eye of our enemy". \n\nYou know a lot of people walk around with their smart alecky -- WWJD, but you know what they don't want the answer, because he wasn't a Neocon. \n\nHere's the truly funny thing about today's Neocons. It used to be that they shored up despotic governments friendly to American Business interests and couldn't care less if human rights were violated, because Neocons don't give a rip about that stuff. That's for Liberals to worry about. But today the Neocons go on and on about Spreading Freedom...the world must be off it's axis because today's Neocons sound more like Liberals than Liberals. Spreading freedom...since when did a Neocon ever really care about that??\n\nSecurity is what they worship...not freedom.\n\nOf course this answer comes from an unapologetic Liberal, so you have to take it with a grain of salt...I mean what do I know what goes on in the mind of a Neocon and truthfully, I hope I never find out.
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Were you generalizing about one side or the other? Sometimes people pose questions that are phrased like this: "all liberals" or "all neo-cons", etc. If the question had an inflammatory tone or appeared to mock the other "side" then Yahoo probably deemed that it was offensive.
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Of course it's possible. Unlikely, though. People have too many hang-ups and the only way they can think to make themselves feel better sometimes, is to denigrate others.
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What utter nonsense. What you want is freedom to say whatever you want without consequences.  That's a very different thing.\nPeople using this kind of question to make political points against ANY administration are just silly, as some of your answers did.  They are willing to undermine our country's reputation for political "points".\nTruth is, we have free speech, and so do the people who respond to you, argue with you, disagree with you, and even insult you. If you are watching what you say, it's because you are too timid to say what you mean and stand by it.\nYou still have the freedom to do that, and that was all that was ever granted us in the first place.\nPeople also have a right to respond to your speech.\n\nYahoo! Answers and other groups that provide a forum for you to speak get to add their own rules.  Just because you use the forum does not mean you get the right to dictate what the rules of that forum are.  They have the right, as owners of the site, to determine that.  If they wanted to limit it to people who can talk only about pink dyed poodles without the participants using the letter "p", they could (not much of a market in that), and have the right to do so.\n\nSomeone loans you a soapbox, but they get to decide whether you use it, or get to take it away if you don't follow their rules.\n\nHOWEVER, you are free to start your own website, your own newsletter, your own T.V. station, your own radio station, and you get to make the rules.\n\nIF you did, would you want people coming with insults about you and your views, or spewing filth to insist that you had to spend your money so they could "speak freely"?\n\nWhat nonsense.  You have no right to ask that.
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No! For me personally, it is more about the language used to express some ideas. I too have served in the military and stand for freedom of speech.It is not necessary to yell,use foul words,throw things,   destroy people or property to get your point across. Yet all too often we do.Ask why? To be a better listener is a start.