And I respect you also friend. But I am not going to lie to myself and cover for others when I observe a general common consensus that I know to be immoral and hypocritical. I am not pointing at you directly at all. But there is indeed some common consensus and radical extremism among conservatives. And I am going to to call it like it is.
All Blacks are automatically guilty without need for due process, All non white foreigners need to go whether they are here “legally” or not, the whole middle east and all Muslims need to be exterminated, Etc. And I know others besides myself see it too but they are afraid to say anything because they do not want to rock the boat or get stoned and burnt at that same stake of extremism.
And with this particular subject there is a majority of conservatives who think welfare and assistance should be completely eliminated altogether. This is extremism. It is all in the archives. They have never even been hungry in their lives and so they have absolutely no clue what it is like. They care only about themselves personally and completely forget what compassion is.
Ironically there is a high number of folks on this board right here who are good Christian Conservatives who do not make enough on SS to survive and have no choice but to get assistance from the government in order to survive. But they will not speak up because they fear the overall general hate for the concept here.
I have talked with dozens of folks in this same position of hardship over the years here. When I stand up for them on this topic they PM me on the side and thank me for the compassion to try and defuse the radical extremism.
Yes, there is radical extremism that intimidates and suppresses open opinion and dialog... And a general turning of heads from and cover up of peer hypocrisy by very example. It is the opposite of what good compassionate Christian Conservatives claim to be...
Having an “R” does not make immoral in-compassionate unrighteousness righteous... Not even my own...
I don’t want to discuss other issues, I want to stick to this issue in its context.
There is no majority of people here who support the total eradication of some form of support, even if the vast majority take FULL issue with the endemic corruption and bloat of the current support systems.
I have been here far longer than you have (unless you are a “re-tread”) and have engaged fully in this forum with over 107,000 posts in real time and with the subject at hand, and I DO recognize that there are extremists in all the areas you mention, but reject your assertion that those extremist views are in any way the majority or anywhere even close to it.
You may have looked at targeted posts in the archives, but I have read them day by day for the past 20 years, and have met dozens of our fellow Freepers in person without taking a hiatus for months or years, so I think I have my finger adequately on the pulse of this website.
You are painting unfairly with a broad brush. Yeah. We have vile, racist, hard-hearted, selfish people on this forum.
Go out there in real life outside the Internet, and you will find them everywhere across the human and political spectrum. It is human nature and you have to see it and understand it.
But you don’t have to be ruled by it.