| | | I am not snarling at anyone, I am trying to have a civil discussion. The Socratic method.
And I do not think people who disagree with me have wicked motives, I think they are wrong, but am willing to discuss it.
And as far as small versus big government goes, that is a matter of modern sociological thinking. I certainly don't care what Thomas Jefferson thought, as he owned slaves which shows his thinking about humanity was VERY limited.
And I do not assume the worst form of oppositional positions, I assume some are simply wrong, but some like the Republican party as it now stands, to be dangerous and am warning against them as I have done for 60 years.
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| | So what you are seeing as dogma, I think, or what many people see as generalizations, I see as demographic abstractions.
Well, then, there is nothing to talk about. We can either snarl at one another or not engage one another.
You are arguing, very clearly, that people who disagree with you on public policy matters have wicked motives. Are inhumane.
As for conservatives not taking the position I outlined, my comment was to take the small government, long time Republican argument (Thomas Jefferson sourced) about the dangers of powerful, central governments. Not surprisingly, I don't see the current Republican party as an embodiment of that argument.
You seem committed to assuming the worst form for oppositional positions.
I'm afraid you are just dug into your positions. That's dogma. Very clearly so. |
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