MsSage said:
You guys really need to go easy on the old one. Remember, he lives in a special place, a special world where facts are trivial things subject to being molded to fit his current circumstances or beliefs. This special world is also an orderly world where everything is black or white, or right or wrong, and where broad, sweeping generalizations about virtually any topic are the norm, not the exception.
For instance, if shown a photo of a ********* rally and a skinhead appears in the background, this allows him to believe that all teabaggers are neo-Nazi, anti-government, and racist. If a conservative voices his disapproval of the heavy-handed tactics by Clinton's AG in the Waco cluster fark, this can be extrapolated to rightwingnuts criticized and chastised the "guvment", law enforcement, and social services for intervening.
Since some posters here from Nebraska would dare to challenge or question his logic on political issues, then when certain residents of the state of Nebraska oppose a pipeline through what they claim to be an environmentally-sensitive area, all residents of Nebraska are conservative, all of them oppose the pipeline, and all of them are now cozy with "greenies" and can also be called NIMBY'ers.
While this type of deductive reasoning might seem strange to the average poster here, even bordering on some sort of mental deficiency, it keeps things simple in what otherwise must be a frightening and complex world to the old man.
