07-10-2017, 01:07 PM
(07-10-2017, 11:40 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: I'm all for attempts at respectful and civil communication. This can only happen with people who are open to it, especially those who are in the stage of life where strong values and values-memes are still forming, or who have come to understand that the old ideologies have failed.
I’ve found that going for respectful and civil communication isn’t all that hard. First, you have to try to be respectful and civil one’s self. Can’t do that when you’re spamming stuff ridiculing their world view. I also at least try to find and acknowledge the real points that are being presented by their world view, while rejecting their straw men, their attempts to falsely project how blue people supposedly think. (This should not imply that blue folk lack straw men.)
One of their points is that the red world view is being persistently attacked by the coastal media. I hope I’ve demonstrated my opinion that they do have legitimate complaints, that some blues can begin to listen.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.