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Excellent article about what is really driving political discourse

Posted on 1/22/19 at 5:15 pm
Posted by TailbackU
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Posted on 1/22/19 at 5:15 pm
This is an excellent and fair-handed article about what is really driving political discourse in our country

quote:

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making darkness conscious.”


Would love the board's take on this

Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
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Posted on 1/22/19 at 5:16 pm to
The main thing driving discourse is that progressives are fricking insane
Posted by GregMaddux
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Member since Jun 2011
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Posted on 1/22/19 at 5:22 pm to
quote:

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making darkness conscious.”

Would love the board's take on this


Posted by GeauxLSUGeaux
1 room down from Erin Andrews
Member since May 2004
23312 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 5:24 pm to
Orange man bad

White man bad

Christianity bad

Freedoms bad
Posted by Mulat
Avalon Bch, FL
Member since Sep 2010
17517 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 5:26 pm to
quote:

Orange man bad

White man bad

Christianity bad

Freedoms bad




Billionaires bad
Posted by Wtxtiger
Gonzales la
Member since Feb 2011
7257 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 5:31 pm to
We will have to fight in the streets one day with these idiots to the death.
Posted by SouthernHog
Arkansas
Member since Jul 2016
6201 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 5:34 pm to
quote:

We will have to fight in the streets one day with these idiots to the death.

I'm afraid you're right and I hope it comes before my children have to.
Posted by TailbackU
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Member since Oct 2005
11103 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 6:19 pm to
Pretty sure no one read the article
Posted by wmr
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Posted on 1/22/19 at 6:35 pm to
National Review; Didn't Read.
Posted by TailbackU
ATL
Member since Oct 2005
11103 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 6:37 pm to
quote:

Didn't Read.


shocker
Posted by L1C4
The Ville
Member since Aug 2017
13189 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 6:39 pm to
We are slowly being driven to civil war by the left wing media
Posted by mindbreaker
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2011
7639 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 7:02 pm to
quote:


The main thing driving discourse is that progressives are fricking insane


From another thread on this board

quote:

Would love for California to secede and then we nuke them. That would be great.


Yep just the progressives
Posted by chity
Chicago, Il
Member since Dec 2008
6081 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 7:08 pm to
quote:

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making darkness conscious.


It means except the transgender movement or the left is going to dox you.
Posted by Turbeauxdog
Member since Aug 2004
23193 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 7:10 pm to
Not even remotely compelling
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
Member since May 2017
19525 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 7:16 pm to
I’d do nothing but laugh at the left, except that every idea they have ends up with the government forcibly taking money from me for my entire working and retirement life.

That’s not some high minded psychological thing. The government actually takes money from me to fund every one of the left’s ideas, and have plans to take more, and that makes me angry.
This post was edited on 1/22/19 at 7:24 pm
Posted by Muthsera
Member since Jun 2017
7319 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 7:17 pm to
Whole lot of words to say that psychological projection is driving political division.

This board argues for it all the time. I think it's bullshite.
Posted by AUstar
Member since Dec 2012
17040 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 7:27 pm to
quote:

Pretty sure no one read the article


Author's thesis is that everyone has traits about themselves that they constantly fight an interpersonal battle against. Such as jealousy, bigotry, laziness, etc. And we project the traits we hate about ourselves on the "other" group over there.
Posted by awestruck
Member since Jan 2015
10944 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 7:53 pm to
Yep, that was it in a nutshell.

He'd have you believe that hatred for LGBTQ issues is due to some latent homosexual frustration...or a deep but unrecognizable fear of Global Warming makes you more willing to project hatred on those crying for regulations... or that you see some of the Clinton's in yourself and that's why you want them dead.

Yea - and he ought to write science fiction too.
Posted by SDVTiger
Cabo San Lucas
Member since Nov 2011
73772 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 7:55 pm to
The Radical Left are driving the discourse
Posted by Strannix
District 11
Member since Dec 2012
48930 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 7:58 pm to
quote:

We will have to fight in the streets one day with these idiots to the death.


This is exactly what happened in Germany once upon a time, so basically progressives are responsible for Nazi Germany too
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