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re: Check in if you are a moderate
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:04 pm to Cheese Grits
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:04 pm to Cheese Grits
The far right is the only thing that MAY save nation for a little while, it will be destroyed by demographics in time no matter what.
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:05 pm to LSU2ALA
Letting emotion guide decision making is a sign of weak mentality.
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:06 pm to LSU2ALA
I think that what turns me away from the Left the most, is that many policies of the left are based on what seems like the “nice” thing to do.
Political Correctness is just politeness, but it’s a 1A Problem
Welfare programs are sold as “compassionate” but they often times enable, if not subsidize bad decisions.
I’m all about charity, kindness, respect and compassion- but modern day left leaning politics seems awfully codependent to me. I just don’t think it’s healthy for a person or a society to live that way.
Emotions definitely have a role, but enacting laws, policies and programs that seek to prevent people from feeling their own negative emotions, is removing people’s humanity from them. Our emotions tell us what is right and wrong for each of us as individuals. My problem with most if not all thinking on the “left” is that it assumes what feels right for one person, or one small group, by necessity is right for everyone. That will NEVER ever be the case.
That said. I think you sound like a reasonable fellow.
But I don’t in general understand moderate. To me, it’s just too often that moderates are really just scared to have a position on anything.
I either have an opinion on something, but if don’t know enough about an issue to form one, I learn about it and eventually will form one.
I think I’m a reasonable person, but would not characterize myself as moderate.
Political Correctness is just politeness, but it’s a 1A Problem
Welfare programs are sold as “compassionate” but they often times enable, if not subsidize bad decisions.
I’m all about charity, kindness, respect and compassion- but modern day left leaning politics seems awfully codependent to me. I just don’t think it’s healthy for a person or a society to live that way.
Emotions definitely have a role, but enacting laws, policies and programs that seek to prevent people from feeling their own negative emotions, is removing people’s humanity from them. Our emotions tell us what is right and wrong for each of us as individuals. My problem with most if not all thinking on the “left” is that it assumes what feels right for one person, or one small group, by necessity is right for everyone. That will NEVER ever be the case.
That said. I think you sound like a reasonable fellow.
But I don’t in general understand moderate. To me, it’s just too often that moderates are really just scared to have a position on anything.
I either have an opinion on something, but if don’t know enough about an issue to form one, I learn about it and eventually will form one.
I think I’m a reasonable person, but would not characterize myself as moderate.
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:09 pm to AggieHank86
Oh please. You spend hours here every day attacking posters and making juvenile comments about Trump. Just be honest for once.
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:11 pm to Vacherie Saint
quote:exactly
What do you call the “far right”? Because last I checked, we have open socialists running for president and the most liberal republican potus in a half century
Trump is no hard core conservative ideologue by any stretch of the imagination
even Jimmy Carter said that Trump would be better than Ted Cruz because he is not a "true believer"
Democrats have gone off the rails and missed a golden opportunity, because Trump came in willing to compromise and negotiate
This post was edited on 6/2/19 at 7:12 pm
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:12 pm to Cheese Grits
I'm super conservative fiscally, lean left on most issues socially so yeah I guess I'm moderate? I really just form my own opinion on single issues and dont fall into groupthink.
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:15 pm to NIH
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Yeah, our poli board "moderates" tend to just be Democrats full of shame or who want to deceive folks
I'm a real moderate. And I have never voted Dem in my life. Did vote Perot.
To a leftist that makes me a white supremacist, far right ideologue and I'm ok with that.
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:20 pm to LSU2ALA
quote:I used to feel the same way, but then the left made it clear that if they could hurt Trump, then even making it easier for children to be raped and abused is OK (muh kids in cages), and started having a permissive attitude about mentally ill transgenders grooming little boys as young as 10 and 11 for sexual abuse by putting them in drag and parading them on stage in gay bars
I’ll go further and say anyone who automatically believes the other side is evil and refuses to engage with them in honest conversation is a part of the problem.
those two things, coupled with bringing drag queens into elementary schools and libraries to address children have good and truly hardened my heart
show me some Democrats that are willing to protect children if you want to change my mind
This post was edited on 6/2/19 at 7:26 pm
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:23 pm to Cheese Grits
I find it amusing when people say they are a fiscal conservatives but don't care about social issues.
Social issues like welfare , food stamps , Section 8 housing , foreign aid , illegals etc... cost money.
If you are a fiscal conservative you should care about social issues , and you should be socially conservative as well. It isn't logical if you are not.
Social issues like welfare , food stamps , Section 8 housing , foreign aid , illegals etc... cost money.
If you are a fiscal conservative you should care about social issues , and you should be socially conservative as well. It isn't logical if you are not.
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:23 pm to 93and99
People who say that don’t want pushback
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:24 pm to NIH
quote:I have NEVER attacked a poster who did not attack me first. Never.
Oh please. You spend hours here every day attacking posters and making juvenile comments about Trump. Just be honest for once.
Yes, I have fun with Trump’s idiosyncrasies, but I am no harder on him than the majority are versus politicians that they do not like.
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:25 pm to Wednesday
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Wednesday
easily the best response in this thread, well thought out, genuine and compelling
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:27 pm to dcbl
quote:Trump is a populist demagogue, and not remotely a “conservative.”. The same cannot be said of many of his supporters. He chose his demagoguery to lure THEM.
Trump is no hard core conservative ideologue by any stretch of the imagination
even Jimmy Carter said that Trump would be better than Ted Cruz because he is not a "true believer"
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:28 pm to Cheese Grits
I’m a registered independent. I’m much more worried about the left than the right.
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:29 pm to 93and99
quote:
Social issues like welfare , food stamps , Section 8 housing , foreign aid , illegals etc... cost money.
Christ man that’s not at all what people mean by saying they don’t care about social issues.
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:29 pm to Vacherie Saint
quote:You are delusional. There is nothing close to liberal about Trump or anyone in his cabinet or his group of advisors.
Because last I checked, we have open socialists running for president and the most liberal republican potus in a half century
Name a couple of liberal positions Trump has taken since he has been in office.
Come on, that should be easy.
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:30 pm to AggieHank86
quote:I was a skeptic, even against him in the primaries
Trump is a populist demagogue, and not remotely a “conservative.”. The same cannot be said of many of his supporters. He chose his demagoguery to lure THEM.
voted for him because #neverhillary
all he had to do to make me happy was to appoint a satisfactory replacement for Scalia
he did that, and also FAR exceeded my expectations
I could not be more pleased than I am with his stewardship of our country
no, I don't agree with him 100% of the time, but we have NEVER seen a political leader keep or try to keep as many promises as he has
Posted on 6/2/19 at 7:31 pm to texridder
You’re going to lose this argument if it continues.
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