Absolutely agreed. If the more on the left had had the reasonableness you demonstrate, (and had backed a better candidate) there's no way Trump would have won. Instead, the left's idea of "how to win friends and influence people" by being raving, lunatic, broken record, condecending douchebags...
I believe you will not see what happens. I believe that any Democrat who could pass a private test like that with you in person right now would, by the time they could become a viable candidate on a ballot somewhere, and by the time you were ready to vote, would have been so maligned by conservative propaganda that you would swear up and down that a vote for that person would be a vote for the devil himself. It's easy to see that in you because you are so sure of yourself and proud of it. Just something to consider when you're not feeling competitive.
Earth to Moonbeam...
Yes, most americans, including the GOP, didn't want to believe the sheer level of racial resentment revealed by every empirical study on the matter. The GOP ran candidate after candidate who had too much dignity to call mexicans rapists or go full birther or let the alt-right run their campaign, until Trump showed them how it's done.
When you wrote that did you see the deeper irony in your own words? Hate is a very familiar theme coming from the religious right and is a hallmark of big religion just as it always has been. This is the very same bunch that will experience what Matthew 7 is talking about when they stand before their maker Jesus.
You are absolutely correct! One failed to reach out in specific areas and the other went straight to the foundation upon which his new to him party is based.
QFT. And they're completely oblivious to their cognitive dissonance...it's an amazing thing to behold.
Then you know more than he does about himself it seems. I often tire of discussions going nowhere as well, looks like I need to rethink my motives.
Fear is just another part of the process. It's a shame that most here lack the intellectual capacity and self-objectivity necessary to honestly assess their emotions.
You are actually incapable of laughing your ass off without pretty much actually disappearing all thanks to your brain defect, the one you can't admit to having, but if we were to take all the self described conservatives and liberals posting here and ran them through a brain scan those of us who actually know something would know what we would find, namely that all those others you describe as 'Dems who actually do peddle hate and fear' will have less brain matter in the part of their brains that generate the emotion of fear and more of the brain matter in the area of their brains that functions to keep fear from influencing the rationality of their thinking. It is also these differences in the quantity and type of brains, by looking at the implications of the functions involved that have led neuroscientists to demonstrate via peer reviewed science the accuracy of corollary conclusions, such as, that when presented by data, data such as I am presenting here, conservatives will address it, not head on and rationally, but will run for the hills, and they will do this more so and not in equal degree to conservatives.
How would anybody be able to honestly assess their emotions when they have not the slightest idea of what it is they actually feel. Can you imagine where an honest assessment would lead? I strongly suggest a therapeutic setting and a rubber room handy before you begin and some basic knowledge of what will happen before all of that.
My dear Zaap. I was only trying to suggest to you that you have been deeply programmed and I did so because for whatever reasons I seem to be largely immune to it. I destroyed all of the sacred ideas that were poured into my head. I lost everything I valued. I know what hopelessness is and I woke up with only that left that can't be taken, the greatest treasure there is. I can't help but think that makes me the arrogant, smug, annoying left personified, but that would be in your eyes, not mine. Know then that while your post is intended to reject what I said, in my view it actually proves it. You are clinging to assumptions you hold sacred. You believe in all manner of things and I believe in nothing but the fact that it takes believing in nothing to see reality for what it is, a world full of fools who think they know things.
That is a typical response from a defective brain, when presented by scientific facts, pretend the data is intended to inflict suffering. How sad for you somebody is calling you defective. Quick, run away to your safe place and invent something inane to say. You hide your self loathing for yourself by pointing to the guy in the mirror claiming he called you bad names when the real facts are it's your own self loathing you hide from yourself that you project as that finger pointing at you.
Certainly. We believers in an ultimate good have to do what we can for each other in our search for what the ultimate good really is.
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