The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(07-28-2020, 02:13 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I answered your question. You are one of the three ideologues who have it backwards these days.

You know how many blacks live by my place near Cape Cod?  If I had any desire to act in a racist fashion, I am sure living in the wrong place to have a chance.  I have already explained that in my career the colored people I met were just fine.  You insist otherwise, but you have never met them or seen me interact with them.  The prejudice comes from your own head.

Ideologues?  They are the sort that stay with their chosen philosophy no matter where in the cycles they are.  Someone who has a scientific mind set compares the ideas he holds against realty, and changes his view to suit.  I have different definition of ideologue than you.

(07-28-2020, 02:13 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I see others like you in Congress too but they're not here to take your place. They're in cozy Washington DC not listening, not using their minds to learn and spouting their big mouths and repeating the same old shit like usual.

Stuff like comply with the Constitution, checks and balances, human rights, equality and democracy?  These are not empty words to me or the Democrats in Washington.  When someone advocating and living selfishness, narcissism and personal gain achieves power, I don't follow him in order to keep power of my own.  Republicans seem to these days.  Either that or they turn blue.

(07-28-2020, 02:13 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I've  also been telling you that war/violence represents one viable  option that Americans are free to choose and support as a means to oppose these days.

It is an option.  It is always an option.  In saying why the Founding Fathers put the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights, I wind up trying to convince blue folk that the Founding Fathers truly considered violence as one of the key checks and balances, and wrote this clearly enough.  The blues were almost as stubborn as you are in denying this obvious truth.  During the revolutionary era violence might well have been one the key checks and balances, manifesting all the others.

In the Information Age, it is obsolete.  Americans through protest and legislation can transform the culture.  No need for violence.  You will see.  You are obsessed with violence.  You spout nonsense about violence.  You threaten to use violence to implement your own prejudices.  But you will see.