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"Every conservative I have met has been a bully. Who are some nice conservatives you have met?"
Quora.com ^ | March 14, 2018 | Matt Salter

Posted on 09/29/2018 5:11:42 AM PDT by daniel1212

I’m a hardcore lefty. I also live in Texas and have spent most of my career working for nonprofits. That means a lot of red-state right winging. Not the nice, necktie, Laffer-curve, “fiscal conservative, social liberal” guys either. Nice conservatives don’t run charities. They’re comfy where they are. You want to do good in Texas, you need full-on deplorables. You need the churches, the phone trees, the mailing lists. They’re the boots, or at least the sensible shoes, on the ground, knocking on doors and passing out leaflets and stacking donations til 4 in the morning.

Let’s be clear. Philosophically, these people were opposed to my… everything. Hellbound from the haircut down. Tabletop gaming! I had friends at one workplace who loved and collected board games. Me too! Chat went swimmingly until I showed them the dice my beloved sister gave me for Christmas and they told me D&D is a tool of Devil worship. Chilled the conversation somewhat.

But I’m a dope-ass grantwriter, so they put up with me. That by itself is a shot in the gut to “conservatives are bullies.” I spent years in evangelical conservative settings and was never treated poorly, beyond the usual office nonsense. It’s tempting to say “well, you were making them money,” but I wasn’t. They didn’t get to keep the money I made. The money I made went to strangers in desperate straits, people of different faiths, backgrounds, colors than the evangelicals I worked with. Those evangelicals a) put in 80 hour weeks to help them; b) put up with a walking billboard for every value they didn’t have because he could contribute.

Then I lost my job unexpectedly. That comes up in nonprofit work, alas. Budget’s always a shoestring. Still, it sucked. Last day, I was packing up and the woman next to me asked if I was leaving. I said yes. She asked if she could pray for me. I said sure. Do what you like on your own time, right?

Then she took hold of my hands.

Friends, I was not expecting that. I came up Catholic. I am now a Christian pantheist. Laying on of hands? Not a thing in any of that. At all.

And she prayed. No smug. No pity. Not a word of condemnation. Tears in her eyes, because she was worried about me. Praying, because that’s what she could do in that situation. She believed, so she stood with me and tried her best to help.

I’ve never forgotten that. Don’t think I ever will. My beliefs weren’t hers. My faith certainly isn’t hers. There is every reason to suspect I will live out my span and die without ever experiencing another laying on of hands. But this person used the most powerful tool available to her to be profoundly kind to me, at a time when I really, really needed it.

That’s not the act of a bully.

So there’s that.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Miscellaneous; Religion
KEYWORDS: deplorables; flyover; liberals; quora
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To: daniel1212

I’ve been checking out Quora lately. I’ve found that a lot of questions on it are loaded to advanced a certain point of view. This is a example of that because it isn’t really a question as much as a accusation disguised as a question. Also, I haven’t heard D&D being called devil worship in 30 years.


41 posted on 09/29/2018 7:04:36 AM PDT by Widget Jr
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To: VanDeKoik

Yeah exactly. So many conservatives keep their politics to themselves.


42 posted on 09/29/2018 7:22:30 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: daniel1212
Your link to "Quora.com" in the header is

https://www.quora.com/Every-conservative-I-have-met-has-been-a-bully-Who-are-some-nice-conservatives

but only returns a "Page not found" error message from the site.

What's the deal here?

43 posted on 09/29/2018 7:52:11 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: daniel1212
Bullies? Funny, the only people out there trying to tell me how to think, how to act, are so-called "liberals." Heck, they're not even just "telling" us how to think, speak, and act - they are violently confronting non-liberals and demanding conformance.

If that's not "bullying" (or worse) then please, any liberal lurkers out there, uncloak and tell us your definition of bullying and coercion and defend how liberals' actions are not all that and more.

44 posted on 09/29/2018 8:04:07 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: daniel1212

“...career working for nonprofits”
Sorry, that is a hard core liberal.
Totally clueless that Conservatives are treated far, far worse in CA, OR and WA.


45 posted on 09/29/2018 8:06:28 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: BenLurkin

“D&D is a tool of Devil worship”

Isn’t it?


I suppose the devil could use it, but he does much more with gambling games and such, with less effort. My family plays DnD as a family. There has never been anything anti-God, unethical or immoral in it so far. It’s a board game where you sort of make the board as you go along, and it has rolls of the dice for whether you win or lose battles. It has characters who you “play” according to what their capabilities are, like how chess pieces have their capabilities and limitations. Could somebody take that way too far? I guess, but they would have to be pretty wacko to begin with.


46 posted on 09/29/2018 8:10:19 AM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: All

“Every leftie I have met has been a degenerate moron. Who are some decent conservatives you have met?”

Fixed it...


47 posted on 09/29/2018 9:13:52 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: daniel1212

to a ‘hardcore lefty’ anyone who speaks an opposing opinion is ‘a bully’.

“Leftists Lie as Easily as they Breath”

didnt need to read any further


48 posted on 09/29/2018 9:40:47 AM PDT by elbook
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To: Sgt_Schultze
oh HELL yeah...
49 posted on 09/29/2018 9:52:15 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: BenLurkin

No such thing as a “christian pantheist.”

There is one God and savior — Jesus. Before him was no god formed and neither shall there be after. (Isaiah 43:10ff)


50 posted on 09/29/2018 10:21:28 AM PDT by nonsporting
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To: daniel1212

Who are some nice conservatives you have met?”

ALL OF THEM


51 posted on 09/29/2018 11:08:17 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: TADSLOS

Be polite be professional and have plan to kill everyone to escape.


52 posted on 09/29/2018 11:11:00 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

AMEN


53 posted on 09/29/2018 11:11:19 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Vaduz
Be polite be professional and have plan to kill everyone to escape.

Words to live by.

54 posted on 09/29/2018 11:13:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

That’s a keeper. Thanks.


55 posted on 09/29/2018 11:16:44 AM PDT by TADSLOS (I hate Russian Dolls. They are so full of themselves.)
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To: dfwgator

Yes


56 posted on 09/29/2018 11:26:17 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: daniel1212

yet...


57 posted on 09/29/2018 4:55:36 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Retvet

Every liberal I’ve met is a potential future CONSERVATIVE.

They’ve just not been mugged yet.


58 posted on 09/29/2018 4:57:55 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Widget Jr
This is a example of that because it isn’t really a question as much as a accusation disguised as a question.

Like the question the libs failed to ask yesterday?

"Mr. Kavanaugh; do you still beat your wife?"


59 posted on 09/29/2018 5:02:47 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Widget Jr
I’ve found that a lot of questions on it are loaded to advanced a certain point of view.

Like polls.

You NEVER see the QUESTIONS asked; just the 'results' of the 'poll'.

60 posted on 09/29/2018 5:04:29 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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