Part One, My #Walkaway Introductory Post.

07-21-2019 | DGravalloni

[MV=PY]

Welcome!

Good thinking. Keep it up!

[ConservativeMind]

Welcome to the family!

[blondiegoodbadugly]

Welcome to FR

[SoConPubbie]

Being gentle works for babies. The gentle approach doesn't work for people who need a thump on the noggin.

You blew right past my point.

[SoConPubbie]

People have to come to things in their own way, and at some point, it is less important how you reached that destination than that you actually reached it.

Exactly!

If someone is on the road to recovery, as this OP is as shown by his/her post, why offend them?

Besides, there is a real-risk of appearing pompous and self-righteous when responding in this manner.

[SauronOfMordor]

Welcome aboard!

[KevinB]

My 87 year old mother has been a registered Democrat for 60 years. Just last week she changed her registration to Republican. She told me she does not want to be a part of the insanity that the Democratic party has become.

[poconopundit]

Romney stands for his DONORS. He is an oligarch tool, much like Obama was. And yes, I deeply despise the RAT as well.

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[HotHunt]

I saw what you did there.

I don't believe in being "offended". Only liberals are offended.

I believe in saying it like it is clearly so there is no misunderstanding. If someone is offended by that approach, that is their problem, not mine.

And at 72 years old, pompous and self-righteous fit me just fine.

So speak for yourself and don't be lecturing me.

[NorthMountain]

If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart.

Nonsense.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Changing your decades of beliefs is an extremely hard thing to do HOWEVER we are all in agreement that the democrat party has become the communist party there is NO DOUBT about that!!! The Republican Party used to be fiscally responsible it really bothers me that they no longer worry about spending!!! The WALL is huge for me I live in CA. and I no longer feel as though I am in America!!! Anyway WELCOME this will be a long journey for you BUT you are now awake AND your common sense is now guiding you, it is all about the LOVE of America and what a GREAT and giving country we are!!! Sure we have made mistakes HOWEVER we have corrected those mistakes and I think WE ALL want to move forward and not be constantly going back to what happen well over 200 years ago this is NO LONGER a racist country NO WAY!!! WELCOME ABOARD!!!

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

My mom is 90 a democrat all of her life I convinced her to change her voter registration 5 years ago she LOVES Trump and his bluntness!!!!

[Robert DeLong]

I think you might like to know about Victor Davis Hanson. He is a main of great intelligence who has awesome analytical skills:

Victor Davis Hanson on “The Case For Trump”

You probably have to start it back at the beginning.

[poconopundit]

"And because I read Atlas Shrugged."

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Excellent commentary, HotHunt.  A year back I ran across Ayn Rand's Introduction to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition to the Fountainhead, and here's an excerpt:

The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it.  The man-haters are those who regard man as a helpless, depraved, contemptible creature — and struggle never to let him discover otherwise. . . Perhaps the best way to communicate The Fountainhead's sense of life is by means of the quotation which had stood at the head of my manuscript, but which I removed from the final, published book. "The noble soul has a fundamental certainty about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost.  The noble soul has reverence for itself." Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil This view of man has rarely been expressed in human history.  Today, it is virtually non-existent.  Yet this is the view with which — in various degrees of longing, wistfulness, passion and agonized confusion — the best of mankind's youth start out in life. It is a sense of enormous expectation, the sense that one's life is important, that great achievements are within one's capacity, and that great things lie ahead. It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature — and that the rest will betray it.  It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning. Ayn Rand, New York, May 1968

[HotHunt]

It’s a quote from Winston Churchill. I didn’t make it up.

[SoConPubbie]

If you want to be effective in convincing others to your point of view, you might want to at least consider what I posted to you.

Like I had mentioned before, I am a firm believer in being blunt. However, your approach isn’t going to win anyone over to our side.

[NorthMountain]

I know … O’l Winnie was wrong about that one.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Welcome. Good luck here. We’re a great group, but we don’t think in lockstep like the Dems. We’re still individuals.

[SisterK]

Welcome to Free Republic!

[HotHunt]

".... your approach isn’t going to win anyone over to our side...."

When I left home to enter the military 50 years ago, my dad's advice was simple. You don't have to please the entire world because half the world is not going to like you no matter what you say or do.

I'm not trying to convince liberals to be conservatives. I'm too old for that. This is not a popularity contest. I'm not trying to win votes. I'm expressing my opinions. I had positive feedback responses from my comments from FReepers who agreed with me.

This is why I love Trump. He doesn't couch his comments so as not to offend the liberals. He speaks his mind. Finally a president who says what we're thinking.

Let's leave it at that.