Posted on 06/02/2014 3:57:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
You waste time arguing with people who have been brainwashed by Communist professors and the state-run media. Life is too short to waste on fools.
I 100% agree. It’s amazing how your words get twisted when you try.
I don’t argue with them. I simply ask them questions that they can’t answer, questions like “Can you give me an example of where a monopoly has provided better service at lower cost than a fully competitive health care market?” Or, “Can you name a single country that has a higher opinion of the United States today than they did six years ago?” When faced with questions like that, liberals discover that they don’t know jack. I then follow it with something like, “Since it is clear you weren’t able to think up these opinions all on your own, where did you really get them from?”
Well they have to learn the hard way.
“You waste time arguing with people who have been brainwashed by Communist professors and the state-run media. Life is too short to waste on fools.”
You’re right; we are way past dialogue with the left.
Just because we have freedom of speech, that doesn’t mean that I have to listen to them. So I just ignore or mute them
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All agreed except also the failure to fight liberals has led to more people believing in something which is really quite despicable. There has to be an effort to win people back over.
Simple example, more people actually believing it’s OK to do nothing and live off others, rather than realizing that is shameful.
I have several lib/leftist acquaintances. Their thinking is SO warped that you cannot have an intelligent, rational, reasonable discussion/conversation with them on anything but the most mundane, nonpolitical topics. Even the weather is off limits because they’ll turn it into a tirade about “climate change”. I quit trying to influence their thinking a long time ago after learning this the hard way. The only thing I will do is stand up for what I believe if they get personal and attack, which they often do since they can’t seem to see there are two sides/differing opinions. There is no “live and let live” - if you don’t embrace their views, you’re racist, bigoted, intolerant, and whatever other terms they want to call you; however, they are perfectly oblivious to the fact that this very intolerance and refusal to acknowledge basic freedoms and liberty (especially religious) is bigoted, ignorant ... whatever.
Tried that on a couple of young Obamabots in the 2008 election. I asked them to name a successful, efficent government run agency. Their answer...USPS.
Pointing out how much money it was losing they said the problem was taxes that were too low and unfair competition from the private sector.
I learned my lesson long ago with Liberals.
So now, I just treat them the way I would a child, a drunk or a mentally challenged person.
They will never recognize logic... and politics aside, how do you communicate with a person who doesn’t recognize logic?
Classic liberal idiocy.
I love it, you could say there there little one, you’ll understand some day and walk away
I can be pretty persuasive in prose form. but face to face argument with a leftist or anyone else for that matter can be daunting....
as a wag once said, “I don’t argue too well, extemporaneously, off the top of my head” oh wait that wag was me.
so when the leftist at the cocktail party(or kegger or labor day bbq) tells me something, oh, let say. “Handguns, shouldn’t be legal as they could never make a dent in a standing army”...my sluggish gray cells begin to remember that one uses a handgun to get to a rifle. It recalls the story of the ‘liberator’ .45ACP single shot pistol dropped to the partisans in parts of Europe during WWII, so that Mr or Mrs partisan goes up to a german sentry with an offer of a cigarette and asks for a light and while Fritz is fumbling for his Ronson(or Krupp clone of same)the patriot launches a single smooth bore projectile through the brain of the Hun and takes his MP-38 and magazine belt for future fun and frolic......
then I stop daydreaming and Mr. Ponytail has left and starts his argument with the next person at the party....
so knowing that time keeps slipping slipping,into the future, sometimes I just argue something like “ Oh YEAH...well F*** you, that’s what...”
“Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
Mark Twain
Arguing with a liberal is like wrestling a pig. You’ll both get dirty and the pig loves it.
Too many cowardly conservatives are that way because they've been convinced by pop culture and the Leftist news media that they're the minority. They never hear anyone arguing the positions they agree with, so they stay silent. I've actually had bystanders approach me after a public argument and say they agreed 100%, but they never heard anyone else say what I'd said.
When you're arguing in public, you're on stage...make it your best performance ever. True, you'll never sway a Leftist, but you may encourage an audience member to nut up and come forward.
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