She seems to think we should provide the evidence to support her arguments, and when we do not do so responds by essentially sticking out her tongue at us like some tantrum-throwing child.
And liberals consider this suitable conduct for intellectual discourse?
Yes.
There are a few liberals of conscience left that one can debate with, but you have to look *hard*. It's really sad, in a way, I mourn the passing of liberalism as it once was. Don't get me wrong, they're always horribly wrong, but...well, say, I met Dukakis, and there was a guy who was, on a personal level, just...a *great* guy. TOTALLY, utterly, completely, horribly, dangerously wrong about everything, but meant very well, believed in it all, you could look him in the eye and trust him, and you could also...actually debate with him, sort of.
After Socialism died, I figure, it went bad for liberalus notSOstupidus. Death of Socialism would be the equivalent of someone showing us hard, indisputable proof that, say, free markets don't work. We'd be shattered. *They* were shattered. So the party began a slow slide into degeneracy punctuated by moments of pure tantrum fits because their false god has fallen and he can't get up. Today, it's just...trash, with the occasional alright naive young person who's just read too much Marx, is still hitting the bong too hard, and thinks "it's all about oil", who will eventually, one day, have to get a job, like the rest of us...and bills...and mommy and daddy stop sending the checks...at which point said generic young person will come to their senses and start voting Republican. ;-)