Election 2018

[Eric the Green]

(10-27-2018, 09:59 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(10-27-2018, 02:52 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The approach of no division and listening can only be applied to a relatively few people on the other side who are willing to listen, as I said before. That may be enough, at least as long as some degree of democracy still exists.

Well, a hater just murdered a bunch of people at prayer, following on the heels of another hater going after a bunch of blues.  Pardon if I am against hate and those who preach hate.  

They are still acting like lone nuts.  They are not forming groups or looking to escape cleanly to repeat their acts.  They are not gathering a following of those who applaud, unlike the old spirals of violence of the Industrial Age.

But I still believe we are going to have to unify rather than hate and ridicule.

Granted, it is easy to ridicule people like you and Galen.  You just look so ridiculous to those who buy into the stereotypes.

I look ridiculous if you decide that I look ridiculous. I am just a realistic guy who sides with the blues and greens politically. It is not a matter of hate. It is a matter of supporting those who are interested in solutions, rather than hate and other delusions.

You still have yet to offer any evidence that 4Ts have ever been resolved by unifying, rather than by one side defeating another. It seems to me you are looking through rose-colored glasses. So who is "ridiculous," and who is calling someone names?

FDR did not offer unity to the Nazis.
Lincoln did not offer unity to the confederates.
Washington did not offer unity to the King.
William did not offer unity to the Stewarts and Louis XIV
Elizabeth I did not offer unity to the Spanish or the Catholics.
Henry VII did not offer unity to Richard III.

One side won, the other lost. After that, a greater degree of unity was able to be created.