Doc1
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Bruce, I swear you're flirting with the old teacher lady. We love to hear that stuff, ya know.No, it's not you. I was reading up on the "bubble" phenom the other day. Some say information overload is partly to blame. There is so much out there, what do you believe? So people choose the stuff that feels comfortable.I agree 100% with all but your last comment. I don't disagree, I just question it. Even if I refuse to admit stuff here, I do sometimes think about it. It never hurts to try, but you're no doubt right that with some people it's like water rolling off a duck's back.Well by viewing your thread it shows many disagree with your wish.
I for one wish all Partisans would remove their head from their ass and realize that killing anyone in the name of your political movement is wrong unless you are under some form of brutal dictatorship.
What happen the other day was wrong and no excuses and I am glad the shooter is rotting in hell with Tim McVeigh!
In the end you will not change the minds of partisans and they believe the other side is the political party of Lucifer and is led by the Anti-Christ, so what is the point trying to convince those that are so close minded and like minded with each other even if they can not see it?
You're not one of those that I consider close minded. We do not agree all the time which is great and I respect you for that but so many need someone to agree with them all the time and if not then you are their enemy and that is the sad reality of this world we live in today.
You would think with the internet and the ability to read many would have open their minds more but it seem more close minded today than in the past, or maybe I am becoming more cynical the older I get...
My choice of stuff to read and inform myself from political to religious material is wide. I will listen to talk radio and NPR to get different points of view. I will read Fox News and Al Jazeera to get different political points of views. My books range from Trotsky to Pat Buchanan and my music from Classical to Rap.
Why?
It is interesting to know about everyone and everything and to have one point of view as being correct all the time is something I do not subscribe to. In fact the day I stop learning is the day you need to put me in the ground because that is the day my mind closes for ever.
I wish more people would be open minded but alas most prefer to claim they know all the answers and yet have no clue what the damn question is or was....
What I see happening lately (and I admit I've only been here one and a half years and didn't pay that much attention to anything political prior to that) is that people are stepping up the ante and suddenly being so blinded that they can't see or hear the person on the other end of their message. Look at what happened with me and TN. Suddenly I'm disingenuous and partisan--because I believe about global warming and the Paris Accords what 98% of the world believes. He's lost his shit because I don't agree with him. Did I call him dishonest and partisan over trannies in the bathroom? Or Lincoln committing war crimes? Wrongheaded, sure, but it doesn't warrant impugning one's integrity.
Politics is making us mental. I doubt if this latest discharge of a fucking GUN will do any more than when Giffords was shot. Everyone tried calling for a return to civility then, too, but obviously that didn't work. Maybe we just need to remember there is another human being on the other end of our messages.
You're taking the first steps to an open mind, kudos. The Left/Right paradigm is a construct, it has one purpose, division. I have been politically aware since the 70's, I've never seen anything like this.