I'm on a politics message board nearly every day, and actually READ what people on both sides of "The Aisle" say, think and do.
The liberals/Democrats almost invariably make good sense, use facts and LINKS to facts, scientific and otherwise, and try hard to explain said facts to...
The conservatives/Republicans, who steadfastly REFUSE to even consider those facts and that good sense, far preferring to only hear what Rush, Bill, and the gang want them so desperately to believe. And the more the sensible, logical, empathic liberals/Democrats try to be patient with them, the more the conservatives/Republicans resort to ridiculing and insulting their opponents.
As a matter of fact, one guy on that board I post at insists on calling us liberals/Democrats their "implacable, socialist, collectivist DOMESTIC ENEMIES", and thinks of himself as a "patriotic American" while BRAGGING about removing all of his businesses and employees to other countries in order to avoid "Obamageddon".
Don't even get me started on all the gun freaks, who insist that their right to own guns... ANY kind of guns they want... supersedes everyone else's right to not be killed by some nut with a gun.
Then they insist that NO woman in the country should ever have an abortion OR use any kind of birth control... get this, now... while Viagra and the other "boner pills" should be available without restrictions to any male who wants them.
I could go on and on with this, but I'm sure you get the idea. Like i said, you really CAN'T make this stuff up.
Only the "patriotic American" conservatives/Republicans get to just make stuff up, I guess.