Look boys I appluade your efforts to educate these guys, but one of two things is happening.
1. Either they're incapable of understanding the points you make; or
2. They don't want to understand the points you make.
Now based on the way they attack the messenger bringing them REAL DATA?
One has to question their motives for continuously missing (or mistating and then complainting about) the point.
I guess what I am saying here is your expectations that the scales will fall from their eyes is naive.
Only intellectually honest people can admit that they were wrong or don't understand.
You're not playing with peiople for whom intellectual honesty is important.
You're mostly discussing issues with partisans who think that insulting people who disagree with the POV is the whole point of coming here.
It just gets a little frustrating when people think that somehow cutting spending when we dont need to is going to fix the problem.
It gets even more frustrating when these plans come from people runnning for president.
Yes it does, of course.
But that's only because you hope that you're dealing with people for whom the point of debate is to achieve a greater understanding.
That is NOT who most people really are.
Most people think that the point of debate is to WIN the debate.
That is why, when these people encounter an inconvenient truth or someone who consistently brings forth facts they don't like?
They attack the messenger.
Think of the way they respond as a kind of mental illness, because that is what it really is.
Your frustration is your problem, not theirs.
When you get frustrated because they don't get it, or REFUSE to get it?
They win.
Making you frustrated is really all they're here to do, anyway.
If they were truly interested in the issues at hand they'd have something REAL to offer the discussion.
They consistently
DO NOT.
Teaching PIGs to sing, and all that, amigo, know what I mean?