07-26-2016, 03:39 AM
(07-26-2016, 03:08 AM)taramarie Wrote: I have noticed that when i was merely listening to both sides to understand what is going on over there and understand both points of view, but curiosity killed this cat when someone on the left said i was a racist or a racist enabler if i merely want to hear the right wing pov and hell i was not even taking sides! I am not even allowed to listen and apparently have to be entirely on one side. Its a bloody war zone over there!
Yes, it is. That always happens when the megapolitical foundations of a society begin to change. The old certainties are no longer extant and the new conditions aren't understood. See Davidson and Rees-Mogg for a more detailed explanation.
It is instructive to note that from a dispassionate viewpoint both the Democratic and Republican parties are in extreme disarray right now. This suggests that the party system is about to change. Perhaps the rise of Milo and Trump suggest a possible direction.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises