See, the people that annoy me are the ones that take everything they hear 100%. To the point that if someone were to make ridiculous accusations, they'd believe them full-force.
And I'm fully aware that everything in the realm of politics has an agenda. But the people who refuse to acknowledge that and see each and every ad/article/statement as flat-out truth make me sad.
I also find nothing wrong with having strong convictions about politics. Especially about backing candidates - everyone has an opinion. But when those strong convictions come from something like only ad campaigns rather than firsthand research, it makes me seriously doubt that person's intelligence.
Though I have to say, the ads do have an effect on me - if I see an ad that says Candidate A saw Candidate B get into an alien warship with gay communists, Candidate A is going down in my estimation.
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Date: 2008-02-07 09:16 pm (UTC)And I'm fully aware that everything in the realm of politics has an agenda. But the people who refuse to acknowledge that and see each and every ad/article/statement as flat-out truth make me sad.
I also find nothing wrong with having strong convictions about politics. Especially about backing candidates - everyone has an opinion. But when those strong convictions come from something like only ad campaigns rather than firsthand research, it makes me seriously doubt that person's intelligence.
Though I have to say, the ads do have an effect on me - if I see an ad that says Candidate A saw Candidate B get into an alien warship with gay communists, Candidate A is going down in my estimation.