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To: koan who wrote (479182)	9/5/2021 12:22:23 PM
From: koan	1 Recommendation Recommended By Maple MAGA Respond to of 541008

I read last night somewhere, will look for that today, in this country, the divide in the two parties is primarily a divide in education. I agree, but would add in cultures and gender. The Texas legislature (one of the worst in the nation) has 83 Republicans and 67 Democrats. Of the 83 Republicans 76 are men and only 7 are women, and only 3 people of color as I remember. Of the 67 Democrats half are women and I think about half are minorities. Right there one can see the superiority of the Democratic party.

To: koan who wrote (479182)	9/5/2021 12:31:15 PM
From: epicure	2 Recommendations Recommended By SuperChief Terry Maloney Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541008

ROFL and what, then, do you make of educated republicans? Some of them have read the same books you have- and more, and yet they think the same way the Taliban do. I think you're missing something. There is a genetic component to conservative twatism. They really are born that way. If one were generous, which I am not, one would see them as damaged from birth- I just see them as an impediment. But I'm not under any illusions that education will change people who are wired for fear and shame- those people are born to be conservatives, and it does not matter where in the world they are born. Every country has its conservaturd population.

To: koan who wrote (479182)	9/5/2021 12:37:02 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 541008

>>People are the same all over the world. Some are just more educated than others. At a few percent of the world's population, we've intervened in an extraordinary number of locations with questionable methods and outcomes. I'm all about outcomes... Where is this beautiful land we built in our image? One doesn't hire an architectural engineer whose own house collapses in a light wind. We are that engineer... One needs to be asked to provide help otherwise it is NOT help. One needs to be qualified to provide that help otherwise it is NOT help. One needs to plan such help or it deteriorates to merely being perpetual incident management. People are certainly not the same all over - there is cultural diversity and varying tolerance of other's cultures and willingness to accommodate that internal diversity. All regions have different opinions about the roles of men, women and children, their education, or rights to agency with respect to law and justice, personal freedom, contraception, sex, art, music, drug use, servitude, caste, the roles of the rich and poor, and whose God should be worshiped. It is endless cultural diversity -wall to wall - some of which Westerners find quaint and others we feel are (rightly) barbaric. Would anyone be able to nude sunbathe while drawing a collection of renderings of the Prophet in some future Afghanistan while smoking a blunt? No - it will always be very different than here. The Afghan people have been locked in repeating cycles of rivalries, regime change, foreign intervention and political instability for centuries. At what point did the Afghani people say to any of the invaders - "Come here and give us SI koan's concept of the ideal Afghanistan." It. Never. Happened.