Posted on 06/05/2024 4:14:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The rich are not like the rest of us. Whether that adage is true or not, it is becoming increasingly clear that leftists do not think as we do. They are not like the rest of us.
I am reminded of the very nice lady who brought her billing statement to our office, insisting that there was an error. She could not possibly owe anything, she said. At first, I thought she might be right, so I went over the entire record of the account with her, line by line. After each item, she agreed that the running total was correct. It was basic arithmetic: charges minus payments. When we got to the final balance, she agreed that the math was correct, but she still insisted that she could not possibly owe the balance due. Even when I asked her to show me the error, which she could not, she remained adamant that there must be a mistake — somewhere.
It was then that I understood the reality of the situation. The nice lady had never been persuadable from the beginning. Facts meant nothing to her. The only thing that meant anything to her was her “feeling.” The stated balance due just did not feel right to her, end of discussion.
When internet discussions became a popular activity in the late 1990s, I had my first in-depth discussions and debates with leftists. It was there that I discovered that there were people who could not fathom why conservatives (such as myself) hold the beliefs we do. How, they would ask, could anyone possibly be so coldhearted as to approve of the death penalty for convicted murderers, who had been afforded every right to defend themselves? But they could not see their hypocrisy in putting to death an innocent fetal child...
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In my life, I have found this to be fundamentally true.
Exactly.
That’s another of the long, long list of quotations falsely attributed to Mark Twain. He never wrote that or said it in a speech, and he would never have been ungrammatical enough to use a plural pronoun in referring to a single person.
That’s because they’re emotionally stunted children at heart ♥️.
Ah, and this...extremely true. I've seen it soooo many times
Agree with you. It’s more about lacking common sense.
Ever try to hold a conversation with someone in a cult? It’s the same way.
You hit on an excellent point.
One cannot recognize lies and deception unless the truth is known first.
I remember a teaching which explained how bank tellers used to be trained to recognize counterfeit currency. The newly hired teller was only permitted to handle authenticate bills. Once the feel of genuine currency had been established, then they could handle all currency incoming. By learning the genuine, when a counterfeit was in the stack, the different texture of a counterfeit bill would immediately stand out. I’ve never been a bank teller, so I cannot confirm if this was accurate, however, the simple truth remains; “if we first don’t know the Truth, then we are easy prey to the lies and deceptions”.
Thank you for reminding me of the teller parable/story from years ago.
Continue to hold fast to the Truth. =o)
“And there are no conservatives they exhibit this?”
When presented with indisputable facts, no.
*Anyone who has spent time around trust fund babies is well aware of this.*
After 40 years of hard work I am a trust fund geezer-earned.
My friends we need to engage/question. Come out of the closet. We’ve got 5 months and Biden’s shortcoming is a fastball over the plate. I wouldn’t argue. No need to. Just look around.
“Conservatives seek agreement...liberals demand compliance” L.Star
I googled it and there are dozens of references. It has also be attributed to George Carlin and many many others.
“Words to the effect”, as requried on all Army Criminal Investigation reprots, kinda like “on or about” in reference to time.
Center for Mark Twain Studies, Article title: The Apocryphal Twain: “Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience”, Article author: Matt Seybold, Date on website: August 7, 2020, Organization description: The Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies was founded on December 31, 1982. The Center supports Mark Twain scholarship.
I disagree. The more troubling are the ones who think they are rational centrists, but get their main diet from NPR, NY Times, etc. they’ll believe they are fact based, challenge any contrary fact to the core. An acclaimed loony leftist admits they aren’t fact based, and can laugh with / at you, on how they don’t care
Clint Eastwood is reported to have said something along the lines of “if you could reason with a Democrat, there wouldn’t be any democrats”
Try8ng to reason with a Democrat is like walking into an insane asylum, finding the worst of the worst in there, and trying to reason with them
You can’t! They live in an alternate world of their own despicable making (democrats i mean, not the insane)- They are just blind to the truth, and they embrace evil, and expect everyone to follow suit
For example, "Police are evil, defund the police." and "Only the police should have guns."
Liberals are uninformed
They believe what suits their emotional assessment
Plus peoples views are more often determined by what they are more than what they know
I’d say the same for the left and right.
Very few leftists are pleasant people
Harvey Levin the dwarf titular head of TMZ strikes me as genial
Gay
Urban Jewish
But affable
Read later.
I disagree there are conservatives who act like this. Just not as many!
Much of this is simple human nature no one likes to be wrong. Given we all have cognitive biases to a conclusion to a great or lessor degree. One has to be self aware enough to recognize that and actively insert doubt into one’s certainty. Rule of thumb: Always test your assumptions. And a new “fact” on a subject could change your view on the subject. Note: Assuming the “fact” can legitimately be validated and is not circular.
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