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Intelligent Choice Party... IC

[I make arguments for both sides before I choose a position; and only really need to choose a firm position on election day] Most of what I hear about politics, and have heard since the late '60s, both from those on the "left" and those on the "right" is one-sided, straight-across-the-board, all-or-nothing hyperbole—" Bush is a liar," " Hillary 's an idiot," " conservative s are moral," " liberal s are smarter." On and on go the iterations of talk radio and TV pundits, newspaper and WebNews writers, college professors and activists. Then come the expected, usually unsupported, reiterations at the street level: colleagues, coworkers, friends and relatives. That's fine if your only goal is to promote your own extremism to the demise of all else, but what about the rest of us that choose the truth regardless which side it falls on. Is it really intelligent to totally approve of or dismiss absolutely everything about