The Partisan Divide on Issues

[pbrower2a]

(07-27-2020, 09:47 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(07-27-2020, 09:13 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(07-27-2020, 08:41 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Well, the era of the Rhino Republican (Republican in name only) is coming to an end. You should be worried about it. Oh, that's right, you're a bachelor instead of a family man and have nothing to worry about these days. I've been seeing violence and I've been responding to it accordingly like every other red blooded American these days. Liberals bow down and do what their told. Red Blooded Americans don't bow down to anyone. You should know that, you've lived here long enough. I don't misuse the term racist like liberals, I apply the term accordingly. Come on dude, I know you're an old racist and hold racist views of black people. I know you're frame of mind ain't the best these days and my style and persistence ain't helping you see straight or see things more clearly or see things the way I've seen them or see them today.

Again, do you know anyone else who has 'racist' backwards?  One misguided ideologue is kind of amusing.  If it were a commonplace idea it would be something else.  Not that the people who are still into Trump are messed up, but do you know anyone that is messed up in the same way as you?

I know three of you that have it backwards. I see three misguided ideologues and possibly a fourth that are much more amusing. I don't know about PB yet but I'm working on it. Unlike you, I know what I've been doing for years and still doing here today. You, you've been going down since the moment my first post was delivered. You are about to see a repeat of your own history here played out on the national stage.

Translated into a more objective, less personal view:

Three people disagree with me, and as I (Classic X'er) cannot recognize the validity of the core values of anyone who disagrees with me, I will attribute them the worst. I am blinded by my own ethnocentric and political bias and have a limited involvement with people who disagree with me, perhaps because any face-to-face interactions would expose me to people who have justification for believing otherwise. I can't figure out PB, whom I wish I could depict as a devotee of Trotsky or some other Commie because anything that I dislike is Communist of some kind.

At another time in history I would have seen a heretic to break at the wheel or a witch to be burned at the stake.  

I can't seem to get off an ideological treadmill and I see the world neatly divided into good people who agree with me and evil people who don't.   I cannot accept that a different background from mine is as legitimate a basis (culture) for believing something different from me. I have my idea of what makes someone an American and what doesn't.  Instead of a rich variety of experiences from which to pick and choose I find perverse difference. I am right, and someone who grows up in Little Italy, Chinatown, the Reservation, communities in the Lower Rio  Grande Valley that are 95% Mexican-American, a Hasidic community, the Old Order Amish, Appalachia or the Ozarks, or -- God forbid! -- BLACK!... tough like. Not like me, ergo less than me.  

I am still the minority, and you conform to my expectations, lest you suffer the consequences. 

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Now, my analysis. "I" now refers to "yours truly, your humble narrator". 

Most of us know the rules for getting along. Do not assume evil in a difference unless the behavior is inexcusable in any culture. No culture can excuse murder, rape, or theft. Most cultures have a mainstream in which rogues who take the outer identity of the group and do horrible things are objects of hatred. Mexican-Americans hated serial-killer and demon-worshiper Richard Ramirez. Blacks recognize serial killer and thug Alton Coleman with about as much sympathy as white people hold Ted Bundy. What people hate the Mafia thugs most? You guessed it: Italian-Americans who have legitimate ways of making a living. You find few German-Americans showing admiration for John Dillinger -- or Nazis. Jews do not defend the Jewish monbsters of about eighty years ago or such scum as Bernie Madoff, Harvey Weinstein, or Jeffrey Epstein. 

For some reason, the 9/11 plotters stayed clear of Dearborn, Michigan, a community with a large Arab Muslim (and lots of people of Middle-Eastern origin who might not be Arab or Muslim) community.