Liberal: "I believe in global warming because Big Business doesn't want me to!"
Conservative: "I don't believe in global warming because ivory-tower Academics want me to!"
The rest of us: " I don't know WTF to think, because the two sides have so thoroughly muddied the waters as to make reasonable discourse on this impossible!"
It's a total religious issue. Each side just has their talking points and "gotchas" pre-loaded in their brains. The actual issue, like several other major issues, has become utterly secondary to the politics and linguistics of the DISCUSSION of the issue.
Our inability to hold polite reasonable discourse on anything of import, is a sign of the apocalypse, and is a symptom of a broken society.
