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Eko

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8. Its not because they are full of hate.

Sat Apr 21, 2018, 09:30 PM

Apr 2018

Because they love also.
Its not because they are stupid,
because they can build houses, tie knots most of us have no clue of.
Its not because they are racist,
although a lot are.
Its because they are scared and lost. They believed the American dream was theirs and was owed to them, and it hasn't been for a while. Because of that they think the world is against them. I get that.
And people tell them its because of these people, this political party , and they are too busy tweeting, working, tying knots, watching sports and reality shows to take a minute to question their own reality, to try to understand, to transcend their own confirmation bias.
Because these are the people that throw rocks at glass houses.
They can name quarterbacks of teams for years, but not speakers of the house.
They believe what they want to believe, because it makes them feel better.
And they are not limited to being conservative. Not always.

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Serious question, why are today's so-called 'conservatives' and GOPrs all assholes? [View all] MrScorpio Apr 2018 OP

I'll take a stab at it. dameatball Apr 2018 #1

Power and money lkinwi Apr 2018 #2

Years and years of hateful rw radio and faux news Va Lefty Apr 2018 #3

If he Dems they were fighting were white men, theyd bettyellen Apr 2018 #4

a) anger is a drug and b) stimulating the limbic brain interferes with rational thought. unblock Apr 2018 #5

And they get really hostile and frustrated whenever their apoplexy doesn't resonate MrScorpio Apr 2018 #10

i'm always calm and usually give them logic and facts, but really what they need is to be laughed at unblock Apr 2018 #11

this is where i am at this point NatBurner Apr 2018 #13

Frankly, I think that they expect to get laughed at... MrScorpio Apr 2018 #18

The truth, though is that they'll respond to reason much better when unblock Apr 2018 #20

"maybe they start behaving properly". Hayduke Bomgarte Apr 2018 #6

You found a typo MrScorpio Apr 2018 #7

Its not because they are full of hate. Eko Apr 2018 #8

You are bound to find a lot of assholes among a collection of angry people Blue_true Apr 2018 #9

They view their political opponents as less than human. TheSmarterDog Apr 2018 #12

huh. Eko Apr 2018 #16

They believe the greatest of all evils are Dems. Anybody or anything else is preferred. kairos12 Apr 2018 #14

GOP is gone you have the TEA Party and the Trumps FairDemocrat Apr 2018 #15

I want to say to everyone to take care this doesnt become us. Eko Apr 2018 #17

Most all of my relatives are conservative Republicans misanthrope Apr 2018 #19

Republicans made a deal with the devil in order to get tax cuts and de-regulation passed into law Yavin4 Apr 2018 #21

Important to remember that they think that about us oberliner Apr 2018 #22

Decades of distillation. Caliman73 Apr 2018 #23