why do you think you are a critical thinker?

These steps comprise the bulk of critical thought. 1. What is going on around me? Look beyond the apparent for the underlying rationale -- who may have planned it, and why. Example: you are in a combat situation and you are suddenly confronted with visible traps and those certain to be hidden ...

My experience with people who do that is that they are lonely, and/or nervous. If you can put them at ease in some way, they can be helped.

Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it. Democrats passed discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery. Democrats seceded from the Union in 1861 starting the Civil War. The Confederacy had one ...

Silence is golden.. S G

Critical thinking involves intensive questioning of every suggested alternative. In addition it requires basing every decision on logic and established knowledge.

Isn't the answer obvious? Vagueness - not expressing oneself clearly - is obviously a ploy to hide ignorance.