Dark Jaguar Wrote:At a certain point, you have to remove the "humanities class" glasses and realize that sometimes one side is just plain wrong. Sometimes you just can't compromise with the devil, even when they are doing "the exact same thing".
Exactly. In fact, that reminds me of an article I read recently that pointed out the media's refusal to acknowledge the Republicans' flip flops (i.e. criticizing Obama for cutting medicare during the election, then complaining that he isn't cutting it enough post-election) because doing so would cause them to come off as "liberally biased." Fox News and conservative talk radio are going to accuse them of having a liberal bias no matter what they say, though, so they might as well point out the obvious fact that the vast majority of the GOP is full of shit.
This notion that there are always two sides of an argument isn't necessarily a bad one, but like you said, sometimes one side is just plain wrong. Just because two sides exist does not mean that both sides are equally valid. Besides, conservatives are every bit as biased as they accuse liberals of being. Many of them do not compromise. Many of them refuse to see the other side of the argument. There's no dancing around the fact that they're hypocrites, and thankfully, the 2012 election restored my faith in the American people, a faith that was almost completely lost in 2010--most Americans now realize that the Tea Party is full of shit (though some of us knew that back in 2009).