I stopped talking politics with friends many, many years ago.
Its not worth it. They are not educating themselves. It is difficult to ask relevant questions without having them get defensive and hateful.
Who needs that?
Its not worth it. They are not educating themselves. It is difficult to ask relevant questions without having them get defensive and hateful.
Who needs that?
Try the Columbo technique. It can provide great entertainment.
“Its not worth it. They are not educating themselves. It is difficult to ask relevant questions without having them get defensive and hateful.”
Fifty plus years of leftist indoctrination in the public education system, and the destruction of religion, has achieved its objective. People have no commonly held values. People are not able to reason critically. They have been taught to emotionally respond to soundbites.
Not having been taught to appreciate the blessing of western civilization, half the people in this country have no concept of tyranny. The televised isolated arrest of a violent criminal hyped up on drugs is considered to be the height of indecency, by people who have no knowledge or concept of a leftist authoritarian state oppressing the masses in every facet of life. Absorbed with their cell phones, video games, and Starbucks latte’s (the bounty of a free capitalist society) they have no idea under the utopian socialist regime they cherish, they will be equal in their suffering.
To understand tyranny, a society must experience it or be informed. Our society is uninformed and has not experience real tyranny since the 1860’s. Therefore, it appears almost certain those enjoying the fruits of freedom will accept chains in exchange for symbolism and empty promises.
“Who needs that?”
They do. Be the friend and help them. Real friends can talk about anything and respect their friends maturity, intelligence, and the ability to reason. If they don’t, are they your friends? And then it doesn’t mean anything because they don’t respect you. They have to make a choice, friends or practicing liberals. Liberals don’t have opponents, they have enemies and will be turned upon by their liberal cohorts if they show any relaxing of the agenda. A hard and lonely life being such an extreme misanthropist.
rwood