Questions Conservatives Won't Answer

We’ve all been down this road -- you’re debating with your right-wing uncle or your repub friend on social media, and they’re ranting and raving about whatever fox is telling them to be angry about that day. And you, not just pushing your agenda but actually wanting to get at some form of truth, you ask a tough question. It’s one the repub has no answer to.

On very rare occasions, when you happen to bump into one of the five or six or so conservatives that have a shred of intellectual integrity, you may get an answer, but don’t hold your breath.

Quite commonly, they’ll try to re-direct the questions. The really good ones will make some statement that sounds like an answer -- a very subtle re-direction -- but not actually answer the question. Other times, they’ll mealy-mouth it to death. And in some cases, they’ll get angry and curse, name call, and maybe even block you from their feed.

We need to keep asking these questions. I’m not the only one presenting these, and I’ll be quite open, I am on occasion cribbing from John Fugelsang’s fine podcast.

This post will be updated often as we come across new questions. But here’s a few to get you started:

• Was birtherism racism?
• Do you favor locking up employers who hire undocumented immigrants?
• Why is it OK for huge corporations to pay their full-time workers so little that they still qualify for public assistance, and isn’t that a form of welfare to the corporations?

Stay tuned … more coming soon.