The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(08-31-2020, 12:59 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Well, I do live over a thousand miles away from you and present no immediate threat to you or your life. So, you can get away with braak, buck buck buck here. In real life, it would be the other way around and you would be at my mercy. I've got a pretty good idea where you stand right now. You're right, I read what you have say and think about it and try to make sense of it but I'm not absorbing it or considering changing my mind. I think it's pretty clear that you and others on the Democratic side don't seem like or appreciate our people in uniforms and view them as a major threat. I'd say most of the people that I've tangled with over the years were radicals who weren't prepared for a real fight or planning on having to fight themselves. I say that because most of them didn't know what to do when I openly displayed a willingness to be mean,  play rough and kick some ass so to speak.

In my karate and kung fu days, I picked up a few thoughts on violence.  If you actually know stuff, you don’t have to prove it.  Picking a fight with an unknown opponent proves nothing.  Thus, your constant reference to how you would use violence gives you away.  No one I knew at either school talked like that, but anyone but a beginner could likely enough kick your rear if they had to.

These days I am handicapped and still am threatened.  I find it amusing.  It is not the dog that is usually yapping and noisy that is the threat.  My tenant keeps a St Bernard called Big Charley on the back porch.  He is there so much that everyone assumes he is chained there.  Um, no.  He is just obedient.  One day someone came after my tenant with intent to rape.  Her response was to yell a little loudly the word, "Charley".  The guy learned the difference between chained and obedient, and suddenly decided to leave the property. 

The military I respect.  The civilians?  The KKK?  The Neo Nazi?  The Boogaloo Bois?  The militia?  They have not given any reason to respect them.  

Yes, the liberals have mostly discovered that protest and legislation is a more effective route than violence.  As I’ve said many a time, insurgent war and nukes have made conflict much less cost effective than it used to be.  Lately, non violence is usually effective against most opponents.  Then again, most opponents listen to the people.  There are more than a few autocracies that don’t listen.  The Soviet Union finally gave up without violence, but that is no guarantee that all autocratic regimes will.  

But I haven’t any real hope you will think things through.  You let your hunter gatherer emotions control you.  You don’t listen or think things through.  But, hey, COVID leaves me far too much time.  Might as well waste it here.