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To: angryoldfatman

Maybe I am wrong but I don’t see Reno as a troll or whatever. I think it takes time for the “scales to fall from one’s eyes”. II know in my case it did. I think it would have been faster had I had the Internet and FreeRepublic. I started out as a libtard, sad to admit. My career just had not left me time to attend to anything else. When I finally got to a place I could start paying attention I began to realize how wrong I was about a number of things. It took years to go from there to here. The big step was coming home from four years deployed on Active Duty. Wow! Watching the news in the mid 90s was mind blowing. One lie after the next. Going from not paying attention to not even here to see it for year’s and then slammed into, “These people are lying to us with every breath they take.”. That got me to realize that if the folks lying to me tended to support the folks I identify with I need to take another look at these GOP folks and see why their enemies have to lie to me.

That was a big step for me to take. Hell, I voted for Carter! Twice. And Dukakis. Seriously. Bob Dole was the FIRST GOP vote I ever cast. I began to realize I was wrong about other things. I remember vividly the day I told my wife, “You know, these media types that are liking to us hate these Christians with a passion. Maybe we should look into this and try to figure out just what is going on there. Mere lately it seems maybe they have the right enemies.”. I was Baptized in 2000. (The wife still can’t see that)

So I get that it takes time to really look around and sort things out. When you are wrong but you want to be right you have to “put yourself out there” and get smacked around a bit. But what is more important? Being right or continuing to be wrong and not be able to see it?


57 posted on 09/23/2016 12:04:55 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute

“I don’t see Reno as a trttrtoll.”

He’s a troll Jim. :-)


58 posted on 09/23/2016 8:02:07 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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