While all you say is absolutely true, without being too philosophical on this, to get the truth, whether in your eyes or not, you need facts. At that point, you are correct, the truth is then not absolute, but it IS informed opinion. So perhaps truth is the wrong word.....and informed opinions are what I respect.

To engage in informed political discourse, you need information to arrive at whatever truth you seek, and offering opinions based on party affliation, etc and NOT seeking data to support HOW you arrived there is a big gap.

Let me add that LISTENING is important also in that information gathering.

As an example. I expressed total and complete opposition during the 2008 campaign to what we have come to know as Obamacare. However, after the primary and leading up to the election, I read as much as I could from all liberal sources and Obama himself, and found myself actually looking forward to passage of what was offered to me as the plan.

It obviously got a bit out of hand and I resent all of it now, but point is I LISTENED to what was offered and my mind was changed at that point.

You disturb me...we have disagreed a lot but agreed on most of these kind of posts...have a nice evening....looks like the Rays might go down tonight and I am off to Tampa tomorrow (at least that is the plan now)