Can people ever be united?

Sounds like it came straight from the manifesto of yesterday's deranged Trump assassin...

"I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people chose to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn't come to that."


The MS NOW (MSNBC) script.
 
Without mainstream media, people could get along fine. We have way more in common than different.
Remember people, the job of the mainstream media today is to make you think that the views of 10% of the country are actually the views of 80% of the country.
 
We need to realize that we agree on far more than we disagree on

For instance the vast validity think sensible gun laws are needed

That we need to fix the broken immigration system

That we need to ween ourselves off oil and into renewable

That Climate Change is real and needs to be addressed

That the EPSTEIN FILES need to be released. All of them

That this WAR is stupid and needs to stop

Extremists will claim differently but
 
At no point in our history has humanity ever been "united". As humans, we all live in our own individual realities shaped by our own individual upbringings. The present day divisions you see today are the result of the divisions of previous decades, and so on, so forth. I don't think this will ever change. Instead of pursuing idealistic, unrealistic goals, we should focus on what we can individually make a difference with.
 
We need to realize that we agree on far more than we disagree on

For instance the vast validity think sensible gun laws are needed

That we need to fix the broken immigration system

That we need to ween ourselves off oil and into renewable

That Climate Change is real and needs to be addressed

That the EPSTEIN FILES need to be released. All of them

That this WAR is stupid and needs to stop

Extremists will claim differently but
I don't agree on most of those things, sorry.
 
Sounds like the above came straight from the manifesto of yesterday's deranged Trump assassin...

"I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people chose to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn't come to that."

He reminds me of Eric Harris the Columbine shooter. Multiple disorders of the personality and the unibomber Ted Kacinski had a manifesto. Harris had extensive writings too. All examples of antisocial personality
 
I'll try to remain hopeful that the flock is somehow inspired to redirect its passion in another direction. Not away from the general policy positions it holds, but towards a more intelligent, mature, realistic way of addressing them. I think that's the country's best hope.

Right now, all it's doing is playing into the hands of its political opponents. Back & forth, back & forth. At some point, we have to move back toward serious collaboration, before it's too late. Instead of "beating" the "enemy", create something NEW collaboratively.
 
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I'll try to remain hopeful that the flock is somehow inspired to redirect its passion in another direction. Not away from the general policy positions it holds, but towards a more intelligent, mature, realistic way of addressing them. I think that's the country's best hope.

Right now, all it's doing is playing into the hands of its political opponents. Back & forth, back & forth. At some point, we have to move back toward serious collaboration, before it's too late. Instead of "beating" the "enemy", create something NEW collaboratively.
And voluntarily. That's where we went off the rails. We've given up on trying to persuade others, and instead just seek to bully them with laws.
 
At no point in our history has humanity ever been "united". As humans, we all live in our own individual realities shaped by our own individual upbringings. The present day divisions you see today are the result of the divisions of previous decades, and so on, so forth. I don't think this will ever change. Instead of pursuing idealistic, unrealistic goals, we should focus on what we can individually make a difference with.
Much of the division currently is artificial - a by-product of an outdated election system that pushes us into opposing "sides". People will always have differing opinions, but the hyper-loyal partisan nonsense is completely unnecessary and utterly corrosive to civil society.
 
Much of the division currently is artificial - a by-product of an outdated election system that pushes us into opposing "sides". People will always have differing opinions, but the hyper-loyal partisan nonsense is completely unnecessary and utterly corrosive to civil society.
It goes far deeper than that. Our modern day political divisions, the parties themselves have their ancestors in England. The Scots and Irish mostly settled in the South, the "educated" Londoners, etc mostly settled in New England, while there are exceptions, the source of these original divisions goes back before the founding of the US itself.
 
I like people. I respect them. I admire them. I’m proud of how far we’ve come, through adversity, impossible odds, and countless challenges. But sometimes it feels like we fail to see our connectedness. We’ve learned to fear, distrust, and even hate each other. The thing is, your enemy isn’t inherently evil. They just grew up in and understood a different world than you did. So I wonder, can this ever be repaired? Are we doomed to division and hatred, or is it still possible for humanity to unite, to discover our shared bonds?
it will always be impossible as we have this corrupt two party system of demopublcans and reprocrats, a ONE PARTY system of a corrupt congress designed to look like two parties so the sheep think they have a choice in who gets elected.
 
It goes far deeper than that. Our modern day political divisions, the parties themselves have their ancestors in England. The Scots and Irish mostly settled in the South, the "educated" Londoners, etc mostly settled in New England, while there are exceptions, the source of these original divisions goes back before the founding of the US itself.
There's history, for sure. But I don't think it's as "deep" as the partisans would have us believe. Mostly we're on the same side.
 
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After decades of trying ti be reasonable with the left which was useless, Ive come to a place where I refuse to even listen to their BS anymore.

We are at a point that there can be no more negotiation with them. They use fear and violence as tactics to get their way. They use Govt as a weapon.

We are at a point now that if we only had black powder and bayonettes we would again be figjting in Wheat fields.
 
There's history, for sure. But I don't think it's as "deep" as the partisans would have us believe. Mostly we're on the same side.
No we arent.

The shit the Dems push is NOT MAINSTREAM.

In the Early 1900s Progressives were shunned til they changed their name. People rejected the insanity.
 
The thing is, your enemy isn’t inherently evil.


Satan sure is and Iran definitely is. Then again, I'm pretty sure that Satan rules Iran.

We don't all have to agree on everything. We just need to respect each other and understand that a different mindset isn't necessarily evil, just the product of a different life.

True, very true point.

Your mother and I were united.

I was Southwest.


I don't want separation, I want traitors hung, and foreign agents, and illegal aliens sent packing.

If I wasn't already happily taken, you sit would have just received a marriage proposal from me. 😍

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He's so retarded that he makes actual retarded people (like me) appear to be a genius.

Oh. Well, you asked me - like that's what I want. So, you know - **** off. :)

He was just trying to make a point.
 

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