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[bhikkhu]

20. Sarcasm noted - but you do touch on an important difference

In my experience, knowing more republicans than I would care to, one of the main things they have in common is the sentiment that "the poor & lazy are dragging America down. When they look at or think about "people in general", they think that the majority would rather not work, would rather live on handouts; they imagine that people in general are more likely to lie than tell the truth, and that most people cannot be trusted; they imagine that most people get or take more than they deserve.

Our side, in general, is the reverse of that - looking at the world, I see that people are mostly good, mostly honest, most want to work, most help out others as much as they can.

One saying - I don't quite remember where it is from - is that the world is a mirror; when we look out, we look in. We tend to perceive most clearly in others the faults that we possess in ourselves.