Fantastic. All I care about is the content. In any case, your comment was no simple personal testimonial, but an attempt to tell carsongross that the "crowd was against him". This is just the conventional wisdom attack again.
That is not the case anymore. The crowd is not against him.
It's too bad that pg has hidden upvote totals, as the bien pensants who support the bailout policies of Bush, Bernanke[1], and Obama would realize that millions of informed people now oppose them. To be an informed person, it is no longer sufficient to parrot what is read in the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal.
My comment wasn't an attempt to tell carsongross the crowd was against him. It was an attempt to tell carsongross that the way he's phrasing his arguments will make people think he's a crank.
I'm telling him what he can do to convince people like me of his arguments, assuming that's his goal. If not, well, mea culpa.
You're falling into the same trap. "bien pensants?" Really, help me understand or sod off. Compare this response to photo317's polite, civil, and reasoned reply.
You're welcome to disagree, but I'll be happy to tell you flat out you're wrong.
My point was about the impact of their respective statements, not the content.