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In reply to the discussion: A little known fact about Virginia's race last night that some people seem to want to ignore. [View all]calimary
(81,265 posts)Glad you're here! I'm just happy to hear it's not as hopelessly red across the board in Virginia aside from the northern counties! I'm glad there's at least a little bit of encouragement.
But I've gotta say - I can understand the red part, and at the same time I CANNOT understand it. I'm just at a loss to understand why or how these folks believe the things they believe, here in the 21st Century. NOTHING of it makes sense to me.
I don't understand the clinging to religion to explain things that have nothing to do with religion, like science.
I don't understand the urge to sublimate women, crush our progress and deny the rights we fought so hard to win (even while we came up short on things like the Equal Rights Amendment). This isn't the Bronze Age, folks!
I don't understand the infantile denial of global warming.
I don't understand the basic idea that fuels some of these folks - who seem excited by all the cataclysm in the weather and the increasing unrest in the world because it means Jesus can be induced to come back sooner than later. Like He's some sort of Heavenly Cleaning Man or Mr. Fix-It or something. In Catholic school I was taught that no one forces the Hand of God, and God isn't subject to OUR timelines, and it's not for us to know when the End Times are near.
I don't understand the poor sportsmanship - if you can't win on the issues, then rig the vote. Then cheat. Then game the system.
I don't understand the earnestness to deny whole swaths of legitimate voters the right to vote.
I don't understand the relentless embrace of slavery and sublimation of an entire group of people - and the longing to have those "good old days" back.
I don't understand the wish to keep certain blocks of the population as a permanent underclass, to deny them rights and citizenship and full participation. They're HERE. They're fellow human beings. They are affected by every law, every convention, every government act, everything. They participate in the system and help prop it up from WAY down underneath. They should have a voice, and not be silenced.
I don't understand how a whole segment of the population is presumed not to be worthy of loving and building a life with whom they wish. That it's up to some arbitrary external approval and judgmental system what they're allowed to do in the privacy of their homes and their lives.
I don't understand the wish to homeschool just so you can avoid things that are taught in conventional school and fill your unsuspecting yet trusting children's innocent minds with all kinds of Neanderthal crap that they grow up with and accept as their reality.
I don't understand the denial of this "War of Northern Aggression" crap. BULLSHIT. The denial of reality is just astonishing to me!!! The wish to rewrite history is just anathema to me! Hey, facts are facts, folks! Sometimes you don't like 'em, and that's just how it is. We have facts to face on our side that we don't like, either, but we had to accept them and get over it and cope. The entire bush/cheney era comes to mind. The reality behind "St. ronnie" comes to mind. And it goes on from there!
I just don't understand it. I know it's all for real. But it makes NO sense to me.
No sense at all. Just don't understand it. Don't understand how the teabaggers and others of their ilk can feel this way. Don't understand their hate. Don't understand their WILLFUL ignorance - even PROUD ignorance. Don't understand it. Don't know if I ever will.