Fortunately for you most of the posters on this board are conservatives. If it were somebody in the middle you and your loopy, unsubstantiated, conspiracy theories would have been gone a long time ago.
Cali, I will sit and debate anyone all day on topics that are merit based. That's easy to do because merit based arguments can be proven or disproven with data, mathematics, logic etc etc. What I can't do, and what most discussions/debates are now being morphed into are not merit based discussions, they are moral based. And that's the problem with morally based debates- everyone has different sets of morals. And regardless of your lifelong position of morals, the "benchmark" for certain groups keeps shifting.
Politically, if this were the 1980s, I would align with "Reagan Democrats". The problem is that in the 1980s, the guys that were "slightly to the left of center" are now, by liberal standards, considered slightly to the right of Atilla the Hun in the eyes of progressives.
Now, is this because I've changed?
Nope.
It's because value systems have changed. I can be against abortion for me personally, but I can also believe in a woman's right to choose-- but if I express that abortion just isn't for me, personally, then I'm branded a misogynist-- even though I still believe in a woman's right to choose.
I can say all day long that I don't care who marries whom-- guy, girl, insert gender fluid pronoun- but if I don't at least consider dating another man, then I'm a homophobe. (This is true btw-- lots of academic articles on this topic)
Whether you realize it or not, I've read damn near every post you've made regarding football or any other topic. Some I agree with, and some I don't. When it comes to football, you usually have a well thought out argument and can back that up with logic and stats and some form of data. Yes, sometimes you make "gut" arguments- and just like everyone else, myself included, sometimes your gut is right, and sometimes it's wrong.
Nobody faults you for that. Nobody faults anybody for that. But when it comes to merit based arguments, we as a society have to take "gut" feelings out of it. We have to talk in terms of data. I know that may sound cold, I know sometimes that means having to make crappy emotional decisions to get results-- but that's life.