The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(07-07-2020, 02:01 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(07-06-2020, 07:17 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(07-06-2020, 07:06 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: You fucked up and called a fellow city slicker a redneck just like you've fucked up and called a fellow American who is color blind a racist just like you've fucked up and called an American patriot a Fascist. Like I said, if you would squawk less, preach less, dictate less and pay better attention and  learn for a change you'd figure out the difference between you and an American these days. You keep asking me what you should already know as an American. So, where does that leave you and the so called liberals these days.

Just to be clear, were you squawking, preaching or dictating just then?

Nope. You're wrong again. I was showing Eric all the mistakes he's made with Americans so far and that's just some of his more recent mistakes.

I just see the partisan thing as symmetric.  Each side is so committed to its own perspective that it cannot accept, perceive or comprehend the opposite.  I figure there is good reason any major worldview and associated set of values came into existence.  If you see these perspectives as absolute truth, as they are deigned to be, you end up squawking, preaching and dictating to someone whose defenses against such are nigh on unreachable.  How can an individual’s intellectual defense be breached if he is incapable of hearing what the other guy is saying?

In a lot of ways you and Eric are opposite sides of the same coin.

Of course, the two views are not entirely symmetric.  The progressive side is trying to solve problems which have not yet become problems in the conservative community.  Every once in a while, the problems have to be solved other than by pretending the issues don’t exist.  Elites are not a problem if you happen to be an elite.  Racism isn’t a problem if you happen to be in the dominant community.  Global warming isn’t a problem if you are going to be dead by the time it hits home.  COVID-19 isn't a problem if you haven't caught a symptomatic case yet.  If you put your fingers in your ears and sing really loud you can make the world go away.

If you happen to be in a place where you are not effected by any of the problems, it becomes easy to pretend the problems don’t exist.  Fake news.  Hoax.  Blindness.  Go ahead.  Squawk, preach and dictate.  

It will all just roll off someone living in the real word, who sees the real problems living from day to day.