The biggest thing I've learned best from the comments on this site is that modern adult right-wingers talk exactly like left-wing teenage boys.
This is especially true of a tiny handful of extremely verbose right-wingers here, who seem to consider themselves owners of this forum and this conversation conducted in their own living rooms, w…
The biggest thing I've learned best from the comments on this site is that modern adult right-wingers talk exactly like left-wing teenage boys.
This is especially true of a tiny handful of extremely verbose right-wingers here, who seem to consider themselves owners of this forum and this conversation conducted in their own living rooms, where everyone is by default expected to bow to their domineering opinions.
Yeah, we get it. You think you know everything about everything--even the side of the political aisle to which you've never belonged. And you use insults and vitriol against people you don't know and would never show the courtesy of listening to.
Welcome to adolescence.
The only difference between you (and you know who you are) and the left is that you're not teenagers. You're not even twenty-somethings. You're old enough to know better than to behave this way toward complete strangers. Supposedly.
My grandparents were hardcore Nixon and Reagan Republicans. My parents and I were hardcore Carter and Clinton Democrats. (And none of us could stand Bush Jr.) Yet, from the time I was a teenage girl in the 1970s, I was able to talk politics with my grandparents, with mutual respect and consideration.
All I had to do was treat them as though they shared my values of being good people and taking care of everyone in our society. I listened to them. I spoke reasonably to them. I didn't take offense, even when they said offensive things. (And they reflexively said offensive things about the left, although my parents didn't talk that way about the right.) I never, ever, ever said anything offensive back. I kept my sense of humor and my desire to get along as my touchstone.
So time and time again, we agreed on our values. And we brainstormed reasonable ways to enact them in government. We had wonderful conversations. And time and time again, my grandparents eventually said they were beginning to understand the left in ways that my parents swore they never would.
Because I--just a teenage girl--held the line at respect and consideration.
So I sure would like to see some of that respect and consideration from the right-wingers here in these comments. I don't come here to see grown adults behave like teenage boys.
I come here to understand what's happening to our world and talk to reasonable people about what we can do to fix it.
The biggest thing I've learned best from the comments on this site is that modern adult right-wingers talk exactly like left-wing teenage boys.
This is especially true of a tiny handful of extremely verbose right-wingers here, who seem to consider themselves owners of this forum and this conversation conducted in their own living rooms, where everyone is by default expected to bow to their domineering opinions.
Yeah, we get it. You think you know everything about everything--even the side of the political aisle to which you've never belonged. And you use insults and vitriol against people you don't know and would never show the courtesy of listening to.
Welcome to adolescence.
The only difference between you (and you know who you are) and the left is that you're not teenagers. You're not even twenty-somethings. You're old enough to know better than to behave this way toward complete strangers. Supposedly.
My grandparents were hardcore Nixon and Reagan Republicans. My parents and I were hardcore Carter and Clinton Democrats. (And none of us could stand Bush Jr.) Yet, from the time I was a teenage girl in the 1970s, I was able to talk politics with my grandparents, with mutual respect and consideration.
All I had to do was treat them as though they shared my values of being good people and taking care of everyone in our society. I listened to them. I spoke reasonably to them. I didn't take offense, even when they said offensive things. (And they reflexively said offensive things about the left, although my parents didn't talk that way about the right.) I never, ever, ever said anything offensive back. I kept my sense of humor and my desire to get along as my touchstone.
So time and time again, we agreed on our values. And we brainstormed reasonable ways to enact them in government. We had wonderful conversations. And time and time again, my grandparents eventually said they were beginning to understand the left in ways that my parents swore they never would.
Because I--just a teenage girl--held the line at respect and consideration.
So I sure would like to see some of that respect and consideration from the right-wingers here in these comments. I don't come here to see grown adults behave like teenage boys.
I come here to understand what's happening to our world and talk to reasonable people about what we can do to fix it.