Let’s imagine that I ask Penny, “Do you think it was right for Trump to appointing someone who had been convicted of bribing politicians to serve as the chair the RNC finance committee?”
Now, rather than answering, Penny goes on a rant that I’m part of the Deep State, a pedophile, a psycho, that I’m making shit up, that I approve of the Democratic Jew bankers who are running the world, etc.
What should be my response to Penny? I’d personally vote that the correct answer is just to ask her the question again. I have no duty to bow to her nonsense or let nonsense win over sanity and the better of the world.
There’s a lot of nonsense and double-think that goes into being a partisan. And a leading path to staying in that zone is to focus more on the motivations of the asker rather than on the question asked. Clearly, no one would ever ask a reasonable question without ill intent, after all.
What if there is no ill intent? What if saying that it’s possible to stay skeptical in the absence of reasonable evidence is just being reasonable?
Would you put Kavanaugh in jail?