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Originally Posted by stevepaa
Anyone who jumped the gun with accusations without real basis needs to be accountable.
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Absolutely. Accross party lines. This is not a "Republican vs. Democrat" issue that should be politicized.
As a side note, however, I think it remains clear that "left wingers" jumped on the lynching bandwagon, while "right wingers" did not. "Democrat" is not always synonomous with "left winger", nor is "Republican" synonomous with "right winger". There is way too much cross breeding to make such generalizations about parties. So let's not play a tit for tat game trying to see our left wingers and raise us one right winger. That is not what this is about.
There exists a faction in our society that appears to firmly believe our military, and the people who deploy it are evil. That same faction seems to believe the terrorists of our world are not; that they are merely misunderstood. They give terrorists every break imaginable; every benefit of the doubt. In stark contrast, they never hesitate to jump on the bandwagon (often on the sketchiest of "evidence") to accuse, try, and convict our men. Not in a court of law, but in their press. These folks tend to be of the "liberal" persuasion; not necessarily of, or exclusive to, the Democratic Party.
In typical liberal fashion, they follow their hearts more so than their minds. In spite of their constant claims of having "open minds" (especially when compared to those of conservatives), they are unshakeable in their beliefs. Beliefs originating in their hearts, not their minds. "Facts" that support those heartfelt beliefs are readily accepted as such, regardless of a lack of supporting evidence. Real facts that contradict those heartfelt beliefs are just as quickly dismissed, regardless of the evidence supporting them.
That is what we see playing out before us in this case. The liberal mindset was very quick to eagerly accept their guilt, long before any evidence of any substance came to light. Now that the evidence has been collected, now that it has been presented in court and found to be either lacking, non-existant, or outright false, the liberal mind either ignores or rejects that evidence. It does not fit with their heartfelt beliefs that our military men are inherently evil. The "open" liberal mind simply cannot digest that. The liberal personna cannot admit it was wrong about such a matter. Everyone in their liberal circles just
knows these things, after all. It really is a bizarre way to digest facts and data, and it is pretty much the provence of the liberal. Conservatives tend to weigh facts and data
before arriving at a conclusion. Liberals arrive at a conclusion, in their hearts, and then looks for "facts" and "data" to support it, picking and choosing along the way.