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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: koan who wrote (455503)10/18/2020 4:11:52 PM
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It would be like opening the door on an Evolution discussion group to Young Earthers and Creationists - there is little coming from the RW that has any political or social merit IMO - there used to be sane "conservatives" that wanted to conserve things - what are the RW conserving these days? When they cross the Trumpy-Con Qanon Rubicon they lost all credibility.

Seriously - if the D's were embracing fantasists and telling our ranks to worship crystals and listen to sitar music 24 / 7 I'd tell them to get stuffed too. Let's float some ideas that are testable and start small - have a lot of different programs that are open, transparent and accountable. They need something like a scientific proposal - goals, methods, metrics and peer review. Nothing the RW has to offer is anything but mean-spirited crap. When they stop having their head up their asses - I'll talk with them again - they need to move to the center because if I'm "Left" - then Center has moved so far to the Right that we are lost. I'm actually not very far left compared to people in the past. I served in the military. I have a corporate job. I'm scientific. I believe in Civil Rights and the right to redress ones grievances. Pretty basic Bill of Rights shit. Heck I even own guns.

There are lots of groups that just wouldn't be advanced by hare-brained theories. Fusion, aviation, chemistry - there is no room for magical thinkers in rational discussion. Have all the talks with ones invisible friend they want - but it can't come to the table with only those principles when there is a plurality of belief. Everything has to be subject to a rational review and defense by the advocates.
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