<i>Have you read about the corrosive effects of welfare on black communities?</i><p>No.  I have read about welfare reducing poverty.  I&#x27;m sure you have, too.<p><i>Have you ever joined in complaining about the inability of public school systems to successfully adapt and harness changing technologies?</i><p>No.  I have read about public schools outperforming private charter schools.<p><i>Have you noticed that our biggest social problems just &quot;happen&quot; to also be located right where Democratic policies were enacted (i.e., the policies preceded the social degradation)?</i><p>No.  I have read about liberal policies solving social problems, as usual.<p><i>All of these things are certainly at least debatable, but they are also certainly not so obviously false that they can simply be discarded without consideration.</i><p>Why not?  I just discarded them without consideration, and you can, too.<p>The question isn&#x27;t whether or not liberal policies solve problems far more effectively than Republican policies.  The question is how quickly you will accept that truth.