Wasn't there a survey where it showed that democrats have no understanding of conservative viewpoints at all, while vice versa republicans were rather accurate in describing liberal viewpoints?
That's because if you subscribe to mainstream media you will only ever hear a parody of conservative viewpoints, certainly nothing touching on the underlying principles, I suspect because the left doesn't really believe in principles.
Agreed on the response to this caricature they're presented with, though. Lefties who have fully bought-in to the philosophy are utterly hateful in the truest sense of the word - fully-indoctrinated lefties endorse a level of racism, for instance, that would make the KKK blush, when you actually look at what they state black people, for instance, are capable of. But they've got amazing PR.
Fully-indoctrinated lefties are horrified at the thought of conservatives gaining power because they are terrified of receiving the same treatment they enthusiastically endorse for their enemies.
I've seen this with family. He brought up the fact that part of Texas was talking about secession with the phrase:
"You want to secede from the union, dissolve the constitution, and start a civil war because you 'hate the gays'???"
Now, I staunchly oppose secession (you don't step back from an entangled gunfight), and for the most part it's all bluster anyway. But the mentality there speaks to the perception of reality that the indoctrinated masses have.
It's literally the "quick a child cried, burn the constitution" criticism we have on the left, thrown back: "quick a gay exists, burn the constitution".
They are pushing our mockery of them, as a strawman of us to their own supporters.
I don't honestly know which way the Texas secession thing will go in the end.
The issue, as I see it, is that (for example) Texas is baulking at the Federal policies that are possibly-designed at this point to inflate USD to worthlessness to make the national debt somewhat less crippling than it is now - and if that reduces most of the US population into poverty and dependence upon the government, that's a price the Biden administration is certainly willing to pay.
The problem being that somewhere like NY pretty much insists on stuff like this - and is counting on TX tax dollars to make it happen. NY cannot walk away without losing all those big chunks of other people's money that they are spending. So TX might eventually have to.
Thing is, that's exactly why Texas shouldn't leave. They have leverage over the feds, including most of the American oil refineries.
Texas leaving the US is not acceptable for that reason alone. From a strategic and geo-political standpoint, declaring war on Texas is a better decision than letting it go.
It's that need for Texas that allows Texas to have real bargaining power and control over the feds. It's New York and California's need for money, that makes Texas have leverage.
Don't walk away from an entangled gunfight, especially when you are winning the war of position.
Mainstream media (CNN, WaPo, spends more time hating on conservatives, as people, than it does articulating left-wing viewpoints. And a lot of time repeating their truth, ie propaganda, without any explanation. The attitude toward the 2020 election is a good example. They repeat over and over again that the election was free and fair, and Trump is a bad man for questioning it. They never really defend the electoral process itself. Just demonize anyone who questions it.
That's because if you subscribe to mainstream media you will only ever hear a parody of conservative viewpoints, certainly nothing touching on the underlying principles, I suspect because the left doesn't really believe in principles.
Agreed on the response to this caricature they're presented with, though. Lefties who have fully bought-in to the philosophy are utterly hateful in the truest sense of the word - fully-indoctrinated lefties endorse a level of racism, for instance, that would make the KKK blush, when you actually look at what they state black people, for instance, are capable of. But they've got amazing PR.
Fully-indoctrinated lefties are horrified at the thought of conservatives gaining power because they are terrified of receiving the same treatment they enthusiastically endorse for their enemies.
I've seen this with family. He brought up the fact that part of Texas was talking about secession with the phrase:
"You want to secede from the union, dissolve the constitution, and start a civil war because you 'hate the gays'???"
Now, I staunchly oppose secession (you don't step back from an entangled gunfight), and for the most part it's all bluster anyway. But the mentality there speaks to the perception of reality that the indoctrinated masses have.
It's literally the "quick a child cried, burn the constitution" criticism we have on the left, thrown back: "quick a gay exists, burn the constitution".
They are pushing our mockery of them, as a strawman of us to their own supporters.
I don't honestly know which way the Texas secession thing will go in the end.
The issue, as I see it, is that (for example) Texas is baulking at the Federal policies that are possibly-designed at this point to inflate USD to worthlessness to make the national debt somewhat less crippling than it is now - and if that reduces most of the US population into poverty and dependence upon the government, that's a price the Biden administration is certainly willing to pay.
The problem being that somewhere like NY pretty much insists on stuff like this - and is counting on TX tax dollars to make it happen. NY cannot walk away without losing all those big chunks of other people's money that they are spending. So TX might eventually have to.
Thing is, that's exactly why Texas shouldn't leave. They have leverage over the feds, including most of the American oil refineries.
Texas leaving the US is not acceptable for that reason alone. From a strategic and geo-political standpoint, declaring war on Texas is a better decision than letting it go.
It's that need for Texas that allows Texas to have real bargaining power and control over the feds. It's New York and California's need for money, that makes Texas have leverage.
Don't walk away from an entangled gunfight, especially when you are winning the war of position.
Mainstream media (CNN, WaPo, spends more time hating on conservatives, as people, than it does articulating left-wing viewpoints. And a lot of time repeating their truth, ie propaganda, without any explanation. The attitude toward the 2020 election is a good example. They repeat over and over again that the election was free and fair, and Trump is a bad man for questioning it. They never really defend the electoral process itself. Just demonize anyone who questions it.