Democrats Need People With Short Memories

[JanetTheGreat]

I feel the same way. I'd like to go back to the America where we can disagree on policy until we come to a compromise that reasonably meets most of the needs of all sides.

Yes. Even if I may disagree with most of what you have to say, I still take the time to read it. I like to be challenged on my beliefs - as there is a good chance I am wrong about several things. However there is a difference between challenging - and random insults and name calling (which is what a lot of other people around here have done when they are questioned.)

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I've seen a bunch of guys like IM2. Narrow-minded bigots.
He's the carbon-copy of Archie Bunker.
You cannot reason with him if you're a Straight White Male.
The media is evil because they know these types are out there and they can push their buttons.
It doesn't take much for the media to convince IM2 that Trump is a madman and that everyone who supports Trump is a card carrying KKK wizard.
The funny thing is, he wasn't around when the Democrat Party was trying to keep blacks from getting the same rights as the rest of us. It was a Democrat or a Socialist who assassinated Abraham Lincoln, JFK, RFK, and MLK.

The left has been able to fool blacks into thinking that Republicans created the KKK and Jim Crow laws. Nope, it was Democrats. And they couldn't do this without the help of our leftist media.

Question everything the media tells us.

You are definitely correct - that there is far more diversity of thought on the "Right" Wing. Like you, I don't believe in the media. I don't actually watch any mainstream media anymore because its full of lies. A lot of far-left users have this belief that all right-wingers are evil and that they want to keep blacks suppressed, etc. I don't subscribe to that. A person should only be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.

 

[mudwhistle]

Sounds like a Harvard Graduate-- PS--Harvard now has classes in Remedial Math.

Yep. Used to be only the best could attend. Now DEI controls who is allowed to attend.

 

[IM2]

Yes. Even if I may disagree with most of what you have to say, I still take the time to read it. I like to be challenged on my beliefs - as there is a good chance I am wrong about several things. However there is a difference between challenging - and random insults and name calling (which is what a lot of other people around here have done when they are questioned.)



You are definitely correct - that there is far more diversity of thought on the "Right" Wing. Like you, I don't believe in the media. I don't actually watch any mainstream media anymore because its full of lies. A lot of far-left users have this belief that all right-wingers are evil and that they want to keep blacks suppressed, etc. I don't subscribe to that. A person should only be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.

I don't think you are right-wing. I see you more as a true conservative. We might not agree on a lot of things, but I bet that if we sat down and talked, we could come to an agreement using ideas from both sides. That's something right-wingers won't do.

An extreme section of America has hijacked the term conservative, and we see them in here. The only thing I will say about your last sentence is this: whites need to come to an understanding that white is a race and that whites have been given things only because of the color of their skin. Not content of character. It is time some whites stopped misusing King's one sentence because he was asking whites to judge blacks on our character, not that we dismiss 250 years of racial preferences whites have given themselves in order to create policies that ensure equal opportunity.

 

[IM2]

Yep. Used to be only the best could attend. Now DEI controls who is allowed to attend.

Wrong. Whites who would not have qualified under any other circumstance, have been admitted due to legacy. In fact, legacy admissions SAT scores were the worst of all.

 

[mudwhistle]

Wrong. Whites who would not have qualified under any other circumstance, have been admitted due to legacy. In fact, legacy admissions SAT scores were the worst of all.

Or political-correctness.

David Hogg was allowed to attend mainly because he was an anti-gun advocate and Trump critic.

"David Hogg, a Parkland shooting survivor and activist, reported having a 4.2 weighted GPA and a 1270 SAT score when applying to colleges. Despite rejections from several California universities, he was accepted to and attended Harvard University, taking a gap year to focus on gun control advocacy.

• GPA: 4.2 weighted (approximately).
• SAT Score: 1270.
• Admissions Experience: Hogg was rejected by several universities, including UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, and UC Irvine, according to reports in March 2018. He later gained admission to Harvard University following his extensive activism.

His admission to Harvard sparked discussion regarding the weight of personal, real-world experiences versus traditional standardized testing in college admissions. "

 

[JanetTheGreat]

I don't think you are right-wing. I see you more as a true conservative. We might not agree on a lot of things, but I bet that if we sat down and talked, we could come to an agreement using ideas from both sides. That's something right-wingers won't do.

An extreme section of America has hijacked the term conservative, and we see them in here. The only thing I will say about your last sentence is this: whites need to come to an understanding that white is a race and that whites have been given things only because of the color of their skin. Not content of character. It is time some whites stopped misusing King's one sentence because he was asking whites to judge blacks on our character, not that we dismiss 250 years of racial preferences whites have given themselves in order to create policies that ensure equal opportunity.

I simply find the USA to be a monstrous mess of corrupted institutions and backwards ideas. The same families, party machines, and donor networks rigging the system for generations is less ‘popular sovereignty’ and more ‘performative choice' that benefits our oligarchic elite. We are ran by individuals who don't see the citizens as humans. They see us as cattle. They have such a low opinion of us - that they don't care if we suffer, bleed, and die. It is the same all across the world - just in different flavors. American exceptionalism is bullshit - however, we do have a better of quality than most other nations, so there's something to be said for that.

I don't consider myself "Right-Wing". I probably do lean more to the right in terms of how other people would describe my views, but when you compare my ideas compared to the mainstream - it wouldn't be likely to match. I don't believe in pushing religion on people, cloaking militarism within "Patriotism". I've had people say that I hate my country because I am against foreign wars - that is how indoctrinated some of these people are by "Patriotism".

I've taken the time to take one of those "political scales" tests - that are more detailed. Perhaps you would find the results interesting. I don't know if I take it seriously, so take it with a grain of salt.

 

[San Souci]

Yep. Used to be only the best could attend. Now DEI controls who is allowed to attend.

Even dirty Illegals

 

[Hector12]

This is why communists get rid of their intellectuals.

The cold war ended during the last century. Red baiting does not work any more.

There never was a remote danger that the United States would somehow "go Communist."

 

[San Souci]

The cold war ended during the last century. Red baiting does not work any more.

There never was a remote danger that the United States would somehow "go Communist."

Yet it is happening--All Dems are Communist now--

 

[Hector12]

Yet it is happening--All Dems are Communist now--

By what criteria are all Democrats Communists? I am a Democrat. I have known and liked members of the American Communist Party. Nevertheless, I am not a Communist. I think Karl Marx had two valid insights, and that he was mistaken about everything else.

 

[San Souci]

By what criteria are all Democrats Communists? I am a Democrat. I have known and liked members of the American Communist Party. Nevertheless, I am not a Communist. I think Karl Marx had two valid insights, and that he was mistaken about everything else.

No--Karl Marx was an economic know nothing. An Ivory Tower "Intellectual" who never did a days work in his life.

 

[leftwinger]

Unless you give a full-throated acknowledgement of whatever left wing nonsense comes up, you're immediately judged as hiding your conservative bias.You simply aren't allowed to hold any other opinion or you're a "hateful misogynistic monster."

It's a war against deep state after 04NOV2020. What side are you meal-mouthed fence sitters on now? We don't have time to deal with any slimy pollyAna Benedict Ahnolds as real people are fighting to save this country from collapse.