Controversial Political Opinions

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(05-06-2022, 09:42 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(05-06-2022, 08:24 AM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(05-06-2022, 07:01 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(05-06-2022, 05:33 AM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(04-22-2022, 06:28 AM)David Horn Wrote: I can't argue with one word of this.  That said, we're in an odd spot here.  Advocacy is assumed to be self-serving, and the more strenuous it is the less any message is received in the intended manner.  I try to keep my message to anyone tied to their life experience, to the extent I'm able to know it.  Am I making gains?  Are any of us?  I guess we'll see in a few months.

It's assumed to be self-serving because it usually IS self-serving. The people most likely to engage in advocacy work tend to be intellectually and moralistically arrogant, preferring to talk at, rather than with people. Not only do they fail to understand their intended audience, they often don't even understand the very people they claim to advocate for, because they don't actually listen to anyone. All 95% of them have managed to do is contribute to a metastasizing cultural tone of disrespect, accusation and outrage over mutual respect, understanding and self-regulation.  Even this assumes the opposition is even their target audience in the first place. Most of the time, they'd rather just parrot cliches back and forth with people who already agree with them, taking no real risks, but congratulating each other like they just got back from active combat duty.

None of this should suggest there aren't causes out there worth fighting for, but frankly, most of today's "activists" deserve the hate they get, and if they want to start making any real progress, they need to take their attitude down about 5 pegs.

Are the Dems preachy?  Yes they are.  Are the Reps dangerous reprobates?  Also yes.  So which is the greater concern, the Republican Snowflake arsonists or the Democrats on their soapboxes?

The question answers itself.

If you insist on playing whataboutism, you forgot the Democrat inner city gangs and Democrat sexually predatory Hollywood elites. Keep in mind that 90% of what Democrats thought was so dangerous about Trump was based on nothing but offensive tweets and comments, so I think deep down, they know that social behavior has just as much risk of leading to tangible violence as more overt crime.

What makes inner city gangs Democrats?  Or the Hollywood predator crowd either, for that matter?  That some affiliate with Democrats is not defining.  Many also affiliate with Republicans -- our most famous predators among them.  Worry about the actual politicians.  At the moment, the Republicans are, to quote Joe Scarborough quoting Aristotle: crazy as shithouse rats.  No one in the Democratic Party is half as nuts as Marjory Taylor Greene or Madison Cawthorn or Paul Gosar or Lauren Bobert or ... I can't sit here long enough to finish this list.  Even the semi-sane ones are nuts.  It's scary.

I see nothing that the big-city Democrats have to offer urban criminals except prison. Most of the elected big-city DA's are Democrats... and that is one of the sources of many of our current US Senators from the Democratic Party.  So the DA is a liberal on everything but crime and has a Spanish surname like yours. That DA hates MS-13 as does most in his or her community and will show no solidarity with you on ethnic grounds.  

Racists take note: 

1. There are plenty of white crooks, too.
2. There are plenty of good people in the ghettos and barrios. They recognize criminals as menaces. 
3. The old bleeding-heart stance that people become criminals because of oppression and poverty is just not true. People largely -- and this is true of liberals -- recognize criminality as a personal choice reflecting one's character. Most criminals are either one-time thrill-seekers who stop after seeing such as more trouble than it is worth, or one-person crime waves. 
4. Repeat-offenders are mostly sociopaths and psychopaths.

Of course it is a moral imperative to reduce poverty, make education more rigorous, and widen the access to jobs. If you want the low crime rate of Japan, then you will need to do two things:

1. make education more rigorous, and
2. introduce thought reform into criminal prisons. Japan treats criminal offenders much like China treats political prisoners. Freeing someone from the attitude that other people are prey is very different from destroying beliefs that arise from conscience and thought.