08-28-2016, 01:53 AM
(08-26-2016, 07:34 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:I know how to listen and I don't have a hearing problem. I don't have a problem with reading either. So, what's your problem? Are you a consistent communicator or do you constantly switch values to worldviews and worldviews to values like you've done and have been doing with me? Are you wrong about people most of time like you've been wrong about me most of the time? Have you considered that the issue that you were trying to pin on me is actually your issue? I doubt it because you view yourself as being a good person with values who is not capable of doing such a thing.(08-26-2016, 01:50 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: You are making a mistake by associating me with rural red America. I'm a city slicker who was born and raised in a suburban/urban area with a lot of different kinds of people. So, we actually share many of the same values as far as public services that are associated with them. If you want to stick with applying your red stereotype to whoever you want that's fine. All that does is allow me continue to apply my blue stereotype to whoever I want. Sounds silly and unproductive to me. But then again, I'm not supposed be as intelligent as someone like you.
You've been pushing the Reagan / Rand red unravelling approach all along, and I don't expect you to change. That would require your learning how to listen. I'm not going to accept responsibility for your applying stereotypes rather than paying attention to what others are saying. That's just your way. Nothing I say or do seems apt to stop it. I don't know that you are unintelligent, you just have well defended values and world view. Facts which conflict with your beliefs and values roll off you like water off a duck. This is hardly unique to you nor to those with red values. From my perspective, there is an epidemic of partisan thinking which is showing no sign of abating.