01-28-2019, 01:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-28-2019, 01:31 PM by Eric the Green.)
(01-27-2019, 10:59 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: As far as moral high horse, I've yet to meet a blue who didn't believe that they were mounted on a moral high horse. Hell, even the lying, conniving, low life piece of crap blues believe they're mounted on a moral high horse these days. Yes, there's a reckoning coming and when that day gets here the blues can expect the reds to not to lift a finger to save or spare any of them from the suffering and hardship they going to have to endure by themselves with no government to rely on for protection or necessities relating to survival.
I think we blues do believe we are mounted on a moral high horse compared to you reds; I'll give you that. We on the Left do think that moral values are important; but it's certainly likely that most reds believe that as well, as long as they are of the traditional religious kind, or at least moral values of American self-reliance.
Although it's a valid moral value, that self-reliance is where you guys go most astray, from my point of view. None of us are truly self-reliant, and the system of safety-net protection that you admit here that you want to destroy, protects you as well, although you are conceited enough, I would say, to think you can do without it and be self-reliant.
Tom Brokaw said on Meet the Press yesterday that he surmises, or has heard from Republicans, that Republicans resist immigration and illegal immigration because they think the immigrants will all vote Democratic. If so, this anti-immigration thrust that Trump has tapped into and stoked to get elected is purely a political calculation on the part of reds. What the reds may miss is that this hostility to Latinos and other immigrants is turning that population further against them than they otherwise might be.