The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(04-13-2020, 05:04 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(04-13-2020, 03:22 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(04-13-2020, 02:16 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Nope. I'm not used to communicating with a robot that's been programmed with a scientific world view and a theory to use to advance an ideology associated with the former Soviet Union that China is now benefiting from today.

I thought so.  You are clearly an ideologue and don’t know how to handle someone who is focused on learning from reality.

You also are not speaking truth, again, showing your lack of integrity.  The old meme, saying all Democrats are Communist going with the opposite all Republicans are Fascists have been left behind even by most American extremist ideologues.  Even the communists don’t believe in communism anymore.  Communism has been replaced by an odd hybrid of capitalists running the equivalent of corporations and autocrats dominating the government.  My arrow of progress suggests even more change is coming.  Thus, I am not advocating for the long dead system of government.  

Your ideology is quite obsolete and inaccurate.  Anyone who is paying the least attention to what I say would know that.  But that suggests that you care about reality not your ideology.  This again counts as spouting ideology and ignoring reality, which I already warned you is not effective against the scientific mind.

I'm aligned with an American based ideology but I'm not an ideologue as you claim. I'm not a Neo Conservative or a Neo Liberal. I'm not a compassionate conservative or a bleeding heart liberal. I'm not a born again Christian/Evangelical  or a devoted agnostic or atheist. I'm not a Marxist Communist or a Marxist Fascist. I don't have a preference for any particular group associated with the Democratic Party these days. I'm a Classical Liberal or small r Republican who believes in free and fair trade who wouldn't have signed the trade deals that gutted the country. Do we need New England for anything other than its historical significance and as an ally during times of world war like Canada? Now, you live in a region that's way more populated than Canada and way smaller than Canada land mass wise.

People don't often agree to the labels people attach to them. But I would definitely put you in the neo-liberal camp, as it is usually defined. Neo-liberalism as enacted by Reagan, Bush and Thatcher is the ideology that primarily says laziness or lack of character causes personal economic failure, so taxes should be limited or repealed for welfare programs.

I wouldn't have signed those trade deals either, so that opinion of yours does nothing to define the difference between you and such liberals as myself.

You falsely label your ideology as "American," and then ask whether we need New England. Last time I checked, they were among the most American of all parts of the USA, given that they started the Revolution and were some of the first colonial settlements. If anything is most-truly American, it is the Native American settlements that have been restricted to federally-dominated reservations. "America" is not any particular race, ancestry or religion or any particular political party or ideology. The USA is the constitution and declaration of independence, and it is liberal values.

You have definite opinions, but you don't know how to label or define them.