re: #500 Sharmuta

I condemn truthers for having fucked up ideas about our government.

Based on this alone- I’m not interested in hearing anything else they have to say about the government. Period.

Let’s try a thought experiment:

Imagine you are President, and someone anonymously emailed you a breathtakingly solid way to supply everyone with health care without raising anyone’s taxes or infringing upon the freedom of choice of any medical consumers.

However, on the eve of giving a national speech unveiling this wondrous solution, the NSA informs you that they’ve traced the email back to someone who once signed a Truther petition.

Do you shitcan your speech, cancel plans to draft legislation, and deny that massive benefit to hundreds of millions of Americans, simply because you loathe its source?

It is a grounding principle of logic that assertions stand or fall on their own merits, independently of who proffers them.