Originally Posted by
Mott the Hoople
Mid...a liberal trying to understand a conservative is like a man trying to understand a woman. You’ll get much farther in life trying to understand something far simpler. Like differential calculus.
Sure...you don’t want a conservative hooker for a one night stand. Conversely hiring a liberal plumber is a bad idea too.
There is a time and place for everything. That’s why I’m not an ideologue. What’s important is that we talk to each other and not shout over each other’s Head.
Granted there are a lot of angry people who just want to vent but don’t say much of productive value. Yet if you are not to dismiss them out of hand then do the work to listen and use your imagination to see things from their point of view.
If you disagree with someone and show them that you understand why they think as they do but disagree with them you will at least earn their respect. Which is important in politics if you expect to get things done.
Mott I always like your thoughtful posts but I'm gonna disagree. Conservative hooker, "missionary only, you understand?" After cutting etc etc I once did 54 sweats without a break, one small leak, I coulda been a plumber. Does the right talk? Did they ever? The history is there and I will link the books that detail it below. I think it is quite easy to see things from their point of view. Arlie Russell Hochschild does an exemplary job in her book, podcast below. Trump is getting a lot done and he ain't listening. 'Understand why they think that way?' Explain why most Americans are racists to me? Whenever I've mentioned your comment is racist they deny it, that is the reason I am banned from APP. You cannot call a spade a spade, it ain't allowed. I once told my mother in law I heard her say many racist comments, she had a fit. Not a week or two later we were with her and guess what? My wife just looked at me. Today liberals and sane people need to call them out and they need to say what is going on under the covers of political BS. They have to be more like right wing press, say it say it say it and repeat it, in hopes it sinks in. Read Breitbart sometime and its comments. You think they'd listen, or think.
https://bostonreview.net/politics-po...their-own-land
https://soundcloud.com/bostonreview/...their-own-land
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...lyover-country
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...nvisible-hands
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...their-own-land
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33917107-on-tyranny
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...f-donald-trump
A challenge to any conservative snowflake, read the above. You may still be conservative but you'll be a real one not a puppet of right wing baloney.
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