Presidential election, 2016

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-06-2016, 02:05 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I just read what you say, read what you write, without expectations being involved. I know what you're talking about with that though, I spent years dealing with people like that here and it really aggravated me. I don't twist your words. I don't put words in your mouth. I don't skew your opinions or alter your opinions to suit my expectations or views. I don't add false meanings or alternate thoughts or do whatever I want to with what you've written. Mike Alexander and other blues did that stuff with me all the time. Do you know how many times that I wished that Mike was  within arms reach?  I'm not like Mike Alexander and some of the other blues. I spent the bulk of my time duking it out with them and still do to a lesser extent today. I don't know what the old forum was like before I began participating. I just know what it was like during Bush's second term. You were a vanilla blue poster back then. I have noticed some changes in your positions. You've given up on gun control/changing the 2nd Amendment to suit the blues and appear to be more in line with my views/values on that issue. You may have been opposed to it all along but I hadn't seen you take a firm stance on it with other blues until recently.

Oh, I have for quite a while gone hot and heavy against the blues regarding gun policy for years. Just ask Eric or Playwrite. Not so much on the new forum, though. We used a lot of storage over on the old forum.

I think it far easier to spot someone else incorrectly stating one's own position than it is to correctly state the other guy's opinion. Yes, there are problems with folk entirely misstating someone else's views, often seemingly with malice and intent, though often strong values make it very difficult to understand or acknowledge someone else's perspective. Some people seemingly just can't do it.

I'm not saying this problem is unique to one color code or another. It is obviously hard to understand and sympathize with an opposing view. Thus, even when someone isn't consciously twisting another's words things get twisted anyway.

I get annoyed when folk don't even try to understand or sympathize with those with different opinions. Some posts might start with the assertion that 'all liberals think alike, you are a liberal, therefore your opinion on the issue is...' (Insert vile stereotype here.) Bah, humbug. Again, not a problem unique to one faction or the other.