10-14-2018, 10:20 PM
(10-14-2018, 08:22 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Hmmm...This may have something to do with the reason why Reds don't take Blues very seriously,
It would be wise to do so, as your President looks like a failure, and we see your Red legislators capable of winning yet incapable of getting desirable results for any but people on the Right.
Bart Kavanaugh, mark my words, will be a sick joke in American legal history.
Quote:and why Reds don't view Blues as genuine people who actually care about other people as much as they seem and often claim to care about the people BELOW them.
We are not the ones who believe in economic hierarchy and brutal management as the fount of all blessings. Tell us about all those horrible things we did in the first two years of the Obama Presidency when Democrats had control of both Houses of Congress. Selling out American interests to Russia, massive corruption, use of Orwellian language, never trying to get the other side to give input to make our programs more palatable, imposing high new taxes in the form of tariffs, trying to privatize the public sector to monopolistic profiteers, using natural disasters as means of enriching the President's cronies, mocking disadvantaged people, and turning words into lies as the controllers of communication of the fictional Oceania in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Oh -- that's your side in the last twenty months.
Let's put it this way -- your side has taken conservatism and twisted it into a sick parody.
Quote:Well, I'm a reddish who isn't that much below you or all that much above you at this point in our lives. This could also be the reason the two if us are rarely on the same page, rarely understanding where each other's at and misunderstandings relating to differences with values and worldviews.[/quote]
I have long given up on President Trump. At best he makes no sense; at worst the sense that I can derive is pointless offense to all that is good and humane. The best that I can hope with him is that he will find Democratic majorities checking his worst tendencies including his severe deficiencies in empathy, integrity, wisdom, and savvy. Gridlock is far better than despotic or authoritarian lockstep for keeping a troubled nation out of the abyss.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.