Hi -- New here.

Legion said:
You "think" DEMOCRATS are responsible for "lower murder rates, lower infant mortality, high life expectancy, more college degrees, higher median income, higher productivity, higher GSP per capita, lower overall crime, lower incarceration rate, lower obesity rates, etc."...."
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In part, yes. I think that's why you'll find meaningful red-state/blue-state correlations across such indicators. Generally speaking, states that have tended towards political liberalism (like those of the Northeast) have tended to have pretty good results. States that have tended towards politcial conservatism (like those of the Deep South) have tended to have pretty poor results. Is that just a huge coincidence? Conceivably. Likewise, it could be a huge coincidence that politically conservative nations tend to be in pretty rough shape, while most of the high-quality-of-life nations are places that are more liberal. But I don't think it is a coincidence, any more than I think it's a coincidence that there's a statistical correlation of the US doing better with Democratic presidents than Republican ones. Instead of regarding it all as one giant cosmic coincidence, I regard it as the product of lots of little good decisions that governments in more liberal areas tend to make, while governments in more conservative areas make the opposite decisions -- for example, the choice between expanding Medicaid or not doing so; the choice between raising the minimum wage or allowing inflation to erode it; the choice between strengthening the hand of unions or weakening it; the choice between aggressively pursuing new technologies like solar, or trying to prop up dying old industries like coal; the choice between protecting the environment or allowing industry to make the state an uninviting and unhealthy place; the choice between pro-diversity and pro-gay policies that bring in the creative class, or to side with the bigots and transform the state into a dead-end culture that can only compete in the global market by driving labor costs down; the choice between proven-effective sex ed, and abstinence-only approaches that fail terribly but placate the religious conservatives; the choice between teaching proper science and only teaching the bits that don't offend the sensibilities of Biblical literalists; the choice between effective methods for fighting crime, such as early childhood interventions and rehabilitation, and methods that fail horribly but appeal to those who enjoy seeing "those people" punished, like mass incarceration.
 
Grumpy said:
Well you sure as hell aren't neutral!!!!! I say Legion, Top, RB60, Sailor, You, and evince be judges. Take it or leave it. :innocent:
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Participants don’t get to pick the judges, sorry, I guess it’s a good way to cop out, because you would be buried.
 
Legion said:
And I will be there to remind you of the futility of your feckless fondness for foisting foolish personal statements on the forum every time you fuck up....
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If I ever fuck up, I'll keep that in mind. In the meantime, you should ask yourself why you obsess over the personal stuff, if you don't consider it important. It's within your power to simply ignore it and focus on the substantive stuff, if you genuinely prefer that.

Hypocrite.
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I do not think that word means what you think it means.
 
Phantasmal said:
Participants don’t get to pick the judges, sorry, I guess it’s a good way to cop out, because you would be buried.
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Oh chickening out because I won't let you stack the deck. Nope you made the challenge you don't get to call the shots. Come on if you think I will be buried. God you are so efing transparent!
 
Grumpy said:
Oh chickening out because I won't let you stack the deck. Nope you made the challenge you don't get to call the shots. Come on if you think I will be buried. God you are so efing transparent!
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JPP debates, the contestants have never picked the judges. Those I suggested would be good and impartial judges as they have been in our other debates.
 
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