[MD] The Art of Philosophy

[david buchanan]

Mark said to dmb:
I don't think that knee you see jerking is ours. ...

dmb says:
Sure it is. You and MRB both responded by simply asserting the same old anti-government slogans that conservative ideologues have been repeating since I was born. MRB said, "centralized government systems only work for defense and justice-administration" and you advocated "the smallest government possible to administer these things". 

By contrast, pragmatists like James "wanted us to give up 'ideologies'.” 

Pragmatism, he said, is “the attitude of looking away from first things, principles, ‘categories,’ supposed necessities; and of looking towards last things, fruits, consequences, facts.” 

Similarly, Obama's Pragmatic attitude leads him to claim "that the Constitution, rather than being a dead document based on settled principles, is “designed to force us into a conversation” and offers “a way by which we argue about our future.”  ..."Obama challenged both parties to leave behind their ideological boilerplate".

What would count as standard ideological boilerplate? What you guys said in response to these complaints is almost perfect example of their what they're complaining. You both responded like parrots with the most hackneyed and cliched slogans of the GOP. It shows absolutely no engagement with the ideas in the article and no comprehension of its central point.

This is what trolls do. They don't add to any conversation or debate or dialogue. They just shit on it and walk away.