Countdown to a Free America

[David Horn]

(04-24-2018, 08:43 PM)Another Xer Wrote:

(04-24-2018, 01:39 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(04-21-2018, 01:59 PM)Another Xer Wrote: Why would the SJW crowd be averse to the economic agenda I outlined?

To be honest, I don't understand it either, but I've watched as people have engaged others with these ideas and gotten slammed as insensitive.  Even thoughtful people who should be open to this seem to need assurance that their interests will come first.  While sitting for hours on the tarmac waiting for our plane to get the go ahead to leave, I engaged with the woman next to me.  She is a second generation Haitian-American: a well educated, well paid pharmaceutical rep (by her own description), but every time I tried to raise the issue of economic growth, she raised the issue of racial disparity -- even though she was not a victim herself.

The tribalism has taken over.  I don't have an answer to that.

Ah, well, we all have anecdotes.

Yes, this is one case in many, but 'anecdote' is a good description, though I've found that to be true in general.  I live in an area that is bright Red.  The attitudes among that subset of the US demographic are just as biased and immune to argument.  I've tried as have many others.  Push too hard, and you make matters worse.  Facts?  They have no power over strongly held opinions, regardless of the holder or the opinions themselves.  If may be possible to offer something so new that no countervailing opinions yet exist, but I can't find any that makes sense to me.  How about you?