Something's gotten under your skin or you would've already put me on ignore.
Just stay tuned.
That so? Yet here we are, the two of us talking. Give me an example of an issue that people are unwilling to discuss with you.
And how will you discern friend from foe? Just shoot anyone who doesn't agree with you?
People like me? You mean, white, middle-aged, middle class, two kids and a dog, who likes to garden, woodwork, sail, hike, and play the guitar? Holy shit, you're right, I am a lunatic!
Except that here we're talking about governance, not revolution. We have a country with a political system designed explicitly for us to work out our differences, peacefully. A lot of people have suffered and died to get us where we are. Giving up on that because it feels like it's more work to talk than to pull a trigger, to me, is spitting on their sacrifices. Getting along can be hard sometimes. Doesn't mean that it isn't worth the effort.
I'm curious. What system of government are you planning to install that's better than this one? Or are you planning just to kill everyone who disagrees with you, you know, like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and pretty much every other tyrant in history.
Did I say unwilling to discuss? Where did I say unwilling to discuss? I said there is no compromise. It's either the Left's way, or war. And war is where we're headed, unfortunately.
You're welcome. It's time you people saw both sides of the coin.
Oh please. You wrote, "It's either get onboard with them or they try to shout you down into submission." That's not discussion, is it? So give me an example of where the "left" is unwilling to compromise and the other side is.
Evasion of the question I asked.
Um, my gender is in my description. I see you're quite the observer of detail. And you're still deflecting. "You people" is such a lame ass, passive aggressive phrase.No, I mean the white, middle aged, middle class, two kids and a dog who likes to garden, woodwork, sail, hike, and play the guitar who withheld his gender for fear of offending the wrong person.
You have zero idea what I'm busy doing except for being on these boards. Overstepping boundaries? Could you be specific, or do you just want to shoot people for vaguely defined offenses?
Again, specificity is our friend. Change? What kind of change do you find so threatening? Revisionists in what way?
The point is, there is no room for compromise on the Left.
You certainly are uncompromising in your opinion of the "left", as if it were some monolithic entity. It's funny because I would argue that there is no room for compromise in the Republican Party, which is undergoing a purge of anyone who doesn't toe the party line. The Democrats, in contrast, are a big tent party with all kinds of factions who disagree with each other.
I am certainly willing to have a discussion about abortion. Start a thread.
You wrote, "Now it's getting time to pull out our firearms and secure our rights before we don't have anymore rights." I asked whom you would be using the firearms against to secure your rights. I don't think it's a silly question at all. Yet you still won't answer it.
How did I leave gender out? My description next to my posts says ,"Male." You just perhaps cannot admit that you didn't notice it? And I was not a fan of the Biden/Harris ticket; they were pretty my last choice among the serious candidates. I voted against Trump.
Actually, you don't.
Warfare is warfare. There's nothing new under the sun in terms of strategy.
Interesting list. I'll pick one.
In the past many decades Americans have, most of the time, voted in a way that neither party has total and complete power. Whenever they did voters have voted it out ASAP. That's what both parties don't understand. Most Americans don't want either party having total control. In fact, utter and complete gridlock with nothing being accomplished seems to be preferable to most Americans than one party rule. Whenever one party gains control they arrogantly believe it will last forever.
Yes, but your "tent party" is fast becoming an umbrella for one group -- sort of like Mr. Smith duplicating himself in the Matrix.
Not my party - but what group is it becoming an umbrella for?
So, you're not willing to have a conversation because you think the outcome is predetermined. Wow, talk about no compromise. I suggested another thread so as not to thread crap this one. What's interesting to me is that you generalize into grand left and right abstractions, when this is a discussion between two people, not two parties or two political movements. I have given abortion question a lot of thought, and I come at it from quite a different viewpoint than anything you have suggested so far. But hey, if you're afraid to have a real conversation, I won't force you.
According to you, I should've included it. I didn't because it was, you know, already there. So yes, I can tell you that exactly. But more to the point, what on earth does gender have to do with being a Marxist? It's not a relevant piece of information.
I was old enough and I did vote for Clinton in 92, something I later came to regret. Bush Sr. would have been better. See? You know **** all about me. Especially, why I voted the way I did.
See, you're not answering the question as to why you opposed gay marriage in the first place. Without that info how can I understand the compromise?
You're assuming I haven't already. But go ahead, keep making all the assumptions you feel necessary so that you don't have to interact with me as I am rather than as you want to project me to be.
The Left, of course. Are you being intentionally obtuse?
Are you being intentionally vague? I try to avoid at all costs terms like left right liberal conservative socialist libertarian and so on because there’s so much variation within each of those groups that it scares what any individual person might believe.
Yes I am aware there is an abortion section but I don’t have the interest in waiting into a 40 or 50 page long discussion that has been going on already for months. Any case I’m interested in what you have to say and I’m willing to discuss it, in a separate thread.
That’s not so subtle way of calling me a liar not to mention ignoring what I’ve already written.
It proves that you’re right that I voted for Clinton, that’s about it.
I’ve heard lots of arguments on both sides. I’m interested in what you think. I don’t let other people speak for me and I assume that you don’t either.
Your content tends to be abrasive to the point of abusive, lacking facts and references, mired in self-righteousness and thoroughly uncompromising.I was hoping to give you a chance to prove yourself different.
American does not need what the Republican Party has become... They ARE NOT the Party that Lincoln built and led to the respect of the United States as a Unified Nations of States.
OK, so you're neither a democrat nor a republican; you simply are. That's quaint.
Slow down, rick. Did you want to chime in on compromise or are you just pissed off?
In the short term, there is no other real choice. The Republican party has gone full Nazi now and cannot be trusted with any level of power in this country.
But you do agree with the Left's position. Where is the compromise in that?
