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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (87560)	4/23/2012 2:21:28 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 89467

Every time I read another ad hominem attack against you, I realize you must be the most disgusting mindless lefty on SI.

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (87560)	4/23/2012 2:27:21 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 89467

"You defeat them over-and-over" what planet do you live on ? Koan has never won a debate on any thread where concervatives can post

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (87560)	4/23/2012 2:46:54 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 89467

Their diatribes have no impact on me at all. Now if you or TL or the rat were upset with me I would be crushed, but not the right wing. I can see clearly they do not understand and don't really know what to do. Their lambasting is a defense mechanism. It is not really aimed at me personally. They do not know how to defend their positions which are real to them. So I can't really get angry with any of them. In 12 years I have only put about 8 people on ignore, and those are the ones who have no possibility of learning and are just dangerous hate machines. Most of these conservatives I would bet are pretty nice people who want to communicate, but the reality we liberals present to them can only be taken a tea spoon at a time as the ideas are so foreign to them and they would have to reorient their entire world of reality to accept what we say as true. I have many very conservative friends. Really good friends, who would do anything for me and still I find the transition has to be very slow. And we seldom discuss political ideology. I think when people are raised in a narrow reality like say the Mormons or Amish or Muslims, they imprint at an early age. To undo that imprinting and then learn a whole new reality e.g. liberalism, existentialism or Zen is a long hard process and few have the curiosity or time to persue it. My conservtive friends love me, and trust me, and know I am a liberal, and even respect my thinking, but they stay pretty much in their own philosphical world unable to imagine our world.