He isn’t a normal poster, one who would actually post what he actually thought, engaged in reasoned discussion, and resulted in somebody either knowing more or actually changing their mind. Instead, for him this is all about reliving his high school debate team years, when life was all about the *form *of an argument and not its content or its underlying principles, and he could be a shining star. That nostalgia for a simpler day without all these ethics and nuances and honesty getting involved includes his legal career, about which he’ll always be happy to brag. You must have seen how badly it frustrates him that this isn’t that kind of place, and that people here are expected to mean what they say, and that we observe a distinction between the letter and the spirit of law.
Here, he sees himself as an advocate, not formally retained but pro bono, certainly, for two organizations to which he has always had great loyalty, and which he sees as constantly under harsh criticism here (justifiably, because they are and they deserve it) - the Republican Party and the Roman Catholic Church. He does not engage in the sort of factual and reasoned analysis that this board is about, on those topics, but instead limits himself to advocacy, using whatever argument he can drum up in order to tell himself he’s “winning his case”, or at least scoring points with the debate judges (who don’t exist here). It baffles and outrages him that we actually associate him with the positions he’s claiming, and judge his morality on the basis of what he actually says.
But that’s how this board, and for that matter life, works. Debate Team is long over, and so is Moot Court, pard. Time to take responsibility.
Yes, he may well vote for Clinton, even if he’s not willing to discuss that decision in depth, but that in no way means he won’t loyally take on the next “case” in which his party, or his church, is “charged” here, and trying to subvert the discussion into another tedious and ultimately meaningless sidetracks. That’s his game, the only one he knows, and he can never understand why he’s never acclaimed the winner.
