The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(04-10-2020, 05:02 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(04-09-2020, 01:51 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(04-08-2020, 11:04 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: ... I've seen her (Rachel Maddow) belittle and insult those who didn't support her/ her side or supported someone or something that hurt her side. It's amazing that a woman like her makes way more money than me. Oh well, I'll get over it. I'll give her credit, she knows liberals and she knows what liberals want and she knows what she has to do and say to keep her job. You pretty much proved that to me.

That is an amazing complaint from a man  who supports DJT: the absolute master of insulting everyone.  Either you're OK with insults, or you aren't.

Trump hasn't insulted me yet. He's mainly insulted liberals and other people (Neo-cons and GOP's) who insult him or screwed him and tend insult us all the time. Now, I don't need Trump to do the insulting for me because I'm quite capable of insulting liberals myself and pointing out their serious flaws and weakness's. As a matter of fact, the mass majority of the Republican base is quite capable of insulting liberals and taking them to task if need be.  In case you aren't up on current events the Evangelical wing is no longer leading like it was during the Bush years. I'm meaner and less caring and more tolerant of wrong doing than a so called Jesus freak. Liberals aren't very nice and it's hard for a nicer group to compete with pack of vicious morons with few druthers. Dave we are at war, we aren't seriously inflicting damage or killing each other yet but make no mistake we are at war with the liberals. I'm ok with insults and so are you. I hope you're aren't dumb enough to plead innocence because I'll stop posting and spending my time pointing out insults that liberals make here.

It seems like most insult on this site.  Most are also so used to insults coming from the other side of the fence that the insults don’t hurt.  You get immune real quick.  It seems that insults are better if you back them with beef.  If you like to an article or news media that supports what you say, or reference a theory, or whatever, the insult can be a tag line to convince the other guy to wake up.  

What is bothering me at the moment is when people go straight to the insult without any backup other than their bias or perspective.

I haven’t thought much of the Evangelicals all along.  One can be Evangelical and a bigot at the same time.  Many Evangelicals do doublethink with Jesus, claiming they know his teachings, but you would not know it by their actions.  While I remain a devout agnostic, the Catholic nuns did teach me a form of morality at a young age, enough to recognize a hypocrite.

Yes, and there is the divide between what a perspective represents and what the other side perceives.  Insults to hypothetical blue folk don’t touch me at all when I have not met any blue folk that actually think that way.  I suspect it works the other way around.  You would suppose if you believe the blues that the folks in the center of the country with their small government, low taxes, low domestic spending bias, do not care if they are poor as long as there are minorities poorer, and do not care if the elites end up with all the money and resources so long as minorities don’t get it.

Is it true?  How much of the small government ideal is based on Reagan’s imaginary welfare queen?  If so, would a really pithy insult wake the bigot up?  Do insults hurt bigots?  Or do insults just slide right off, as they come from the other side?