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In reply to the discussion: STILL wondering when Americans are going to fall out of love with Republicans. [View all]SubjectiveLife78
(67 posts)24. "Yes, we ARE supposed to be moving past binary thinking by now."
Sometimes, wrong is just plain WRONG and we shouldn't have to kowtow to people's pet hates in order to reach them.
We're supposed to have moved past binary thinking, but wrong is also sometimes just wrong? So situational binary thinking, depending on what the thinker thinks is right and wrong?
Should or shouldn't are always fun words. A lot of binary in there. Shouldn't have to kowtow to this or that group to win in politics. I guess that's accurate, but at the same time, there's a reality of the situation we all live in, and everyone has to adapt to it. Adaptation isn't always easy. I don't know if there's a good answer. Shouldn't have to. There's a lot of things that shouldn't happen, but they do. To use a current topic, should people lose their job to automation? I don't know. No? What will they do? Yes? I mean, progress must advance, even if it leaves people behind.
What laundry list of things are they going to find wrong with us?
I don't know, but I'm sure they have them. You can think their list is wrong, but they don't. Who's right? I don't know, in a non-binary thinking world, who gets to choose who is right and wrong? Unless we do still think in binary terms. Do we? Yes or no? Maybe only some people?
We're not living in the cusp of the Neolithic Revolution here.
No, but, the number of times we spin around the sun doesn't change all that much(does the spin start on January 1st?), and the never ending battle between the Individual vs. the Collective rages on. Most people will fall into either category depending on what the context of the debate is. Some like the collective approach, unless it's, say, one person trying to get out of a religion. Then what the individual wants matters most. On the other hand, you can be for all sort of individuality, where you can pick and choose who you want to be in life, until it comes to paying taxes to support the greater community. Then the needs of the many outweigh your small personal wants or desires.
So I guess humans are situational non-binary binary thinkers. Or something like that.
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STILL wondering when Americans are going to fall out of love with Republicans. [View all]
HughBeaumont
Dec 2016
OP
this is EXACTLY my huge frustration. It's insane. But a HUGE PART of it is the news media
Fast Walker 52
Dec 2016
#1
Baby boomers were liberal in the 60's and then conservative in the 80's and beyond
yeoman6987
Dec 2016
#10
Yes I live in central Indiana too and basically they will vote for ANYONE with an R after their name
Fast Walker 52
Dec 2016
#16
Simple. GOP makes them feel okay about their selfishness, racism, and other regressive tendencies.
Gidney N Cloyd
Dec 2016
#5
People in this country (I'm sure not the only ones) just looove a fake tough guy. Now they
Guy Whitey Corngood
Dec 2016
#6
I am really starting to believe it will be another 50-100 years, which is why
Maru Kitteh
Dec 2016
#8
If "outlawing" racism, misogyny, homophobia, and rampant & damaging greed is a thing . . .
HughBeaumont
Dec 2016
#30