re: You people are so lucky to not live in an area where you are the total minority like I am

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I live in Ga too.

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Other than work concerns, if they walled in I-285 and filled it with water, my life wouldn't be different in the least.

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This ended up way longer than I originally anticipated

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Decent analysis though. From Gulf Breeze to Panama City Beach, that's pretty much the truth.

Have you tried dudes? You seem more like the guy on guy kinda fella

You know, the 1% idiot wing of the Democrats are the nutcase gun haters. Just like the idiot wing of our party thinks it's their right to have full automatic assault weapons and grenade launchers.
Both me and my neighbors think all of them are complete zeros.

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I’m surrounded by Beto signs so I feel your pain. The smell of dirty Dems is everywhere. I should burn down my house and move.

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The amount of Beto signs everywhere is triggering the frick out of me.

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The amount of Beto signs everywhere is triggering the frick out of me.

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I haven't seen as many here as I expected. Which I'm perfectly ok with

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What motivates a highly affluent, well educated, high work skilled people to fall for the DEM agenda that is primarily dependent on maintaining a dependent group of grievance ridden claptrap??

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Because you don't have to look deeply for it to make sense. It's quick and easy to understand. The problem is that once you do look deeply you realize much of the Progressive agenda is absolute bullshite built primarily on identity politics rather than facts.

Take the firearm debate for instance.

The quick, easy argument that any child can understand is that firearms can be dangerous. It's one of the most basic instincts of human nature to avoid things that are dangerous, ergo we should avoid firearms by restricting them to the point where they are so highly regulated ("smart, common-sense gun control") that only specific groups can have them (ie: the government). The argument goes no deeper than that in most of their minds.

Once you dig deeper you see that DGU (defensive gun usages) estimates can equal offensive uses (few deep studies of DGUs have been done, the most prominent one being the CDC's 2013 study that blew a lot of Progressive themes on firearms out of the water). Going below the mere surface also means addressing things like The One-Eyed Man in the Land of the Blind scenario (ie: disarming the peaceful populace leaves and armed criminal populace with almost free reign), how the police can't be everywhere (ie: if someone is trying to break into my home my immediate future is more safe if I have a gun in my hand than it is if I have the police on the phone) and that there are people out there who think so incredibly different from you that your life means nothing to them if it is in the way of what they want (regardless of how important or trivial it is they want).

I feel a bit of your pain. My sister-in-law lives in Austin and has raised her kids there. Although they all think Beto is the shizzy, one is especially liberal to the point of making a comment or two on FB posts I've made. I've held back on her out of respect for my wife and that she had only been in high school. Now that she's a freshman in college (at a very expensive, very liberal university) I'm expecting her to move so much more to the left that an eventual deep debate is inevitable (her mother refuses to discuss politics with or around me because of the afore-mentioned don't-look-too-deeply stance).

tl;dr - she may grow out of it, she may need some calm discussions to force her to actually think or she may end up drinking the Kool-Aid. Some people just like the easier path.

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I am fighting the fight but obviously I am outnumbered. Be blessed where you are but where I live there are very few Libertarians & conservatives. It even makes it hard to pick up chicks. Thank the good lord I at least have some game.

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I live in a mixed neighborhood here in BR. It's a good place with friendly people (friendly or just keep to themselves, no trashy assholes) where I routinely come in from work in the evenings to see parents and their young children playing in their front yards or riding bikes down the sidewalks. The neighbors on either side are black and while I have never heard a peep of politics from one family, the other (a single, older female) often posts Obama love or anti-Trump things. She knows our political stances differ so we simply do not discuss politics (we stick to things like vacationing, cooking and Saints football).

I have a fairly liberal friend who lives out of state and whom I message back and forth with often. We constantly talk politics (mostly just inane, but fun, banter) and at times have to agree to let a topic go since we know neither will convince the other they are wrong.

I live in the only town left in the MS delta that’s still majority white. Thankfully