The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(08-19-2021, 08:13 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: You should be able to tell the difference between a kid and an adult. Other than Reds are racist people and cops are racists too and the minorities are born inferior and will always be viewed as inferior by white, America is bad or evil or behind as far as the rest of the world, what are you teaching and  failing to teach me? Yep. I'm to old to be sent to the principle's office I'm also to old to be scolded or intimidated by someone like you or PB these days.

Tribal Thinking.  One thinks of one’s self as superior, and makes up excuses to think others unlike you are inferior, justifying prejudice, oppression and violence.  That is the center of the problem.  I would not say the US is the worst at it.  Look at prior crises.  Kings.  Slavery.  Conquest of lands inhabited by the disliked people.  I would not say the US is free of it.

Kids indulge in it too.  You dislike and use violence on a smaller scale to those outside particular cliques.  The instructors do what they can to moderate the anti social behavior, the prejudice, the foul language, the violence.  They have only partial success.  Not surprising.  Humans evolved crushing others with different genes.  Tribal thinking was cost effective back then, at least for the winners.  As a result, the teachers and principles are going to fail.  People like you are going to slip though the cracks.  Thus, we have to deal with prejudice, foul language, and violence by so called adults.  Our culture is the worse for it.

Before George Floyd’s death, the KKK, the Neo Nazi and Antifa seemed to enjoy having fist fights with each other.  Before and after, bad cops would murder minorities.  Nuts would shoot up a social club, or drive though a crowd.  Rural racists would pile into pick up trucks and shoot paint balls into protestors.  Folks plotted to kidnap and kill a governor.  Then there was the racist organizations in the January 6th insurrection.  This is all a wrinkle on tribal thinking, on prejudice, foul language, intimidation and violence.  This is all an outgrowth of the teachers not managing to overcome flaws in the culture, not teaching the children what America should be about.

All men are created equal.

Now you come into a site discussing history and politics and throw around foul language and empty threats of violence.  Am I supposed to be impressed?  You can’t do anything with fact and reason so you behave like a kid?

In each crisis, the greatest flaw in the culture is removed.  You might think of yourself as representing the greatest flaw in the culture.