(12-08-2019, 05:00 AM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Sigh...
Do I have to explain everything to you?
Yes. You should also make sure my shoes are tied so I don't trip while running towards the sound of the gunfire. It would be nice if you could also make some oatmeal to send with me, so I don't choke on the solid rations. I'll try real hard to manage my own bib!
The fact remains that by tarring all Democrats with the same brush, we are running the risk of alienating potential allies in the coming fight. I'm not big on alienating allies when a fight is brewing. When wounds and injuries are starting to be traded, you need all the friends you can get. I cringe when I see Conservatives call them "Demonrats", among other, less salubrious, epithets on places like Facebook. Those Facebook folk are not, generally speaking, the same folks we are going to be engaging in imminent violence with. It makes no sense to alienate them before we even get out of the gate.
I have a brother in law who is a Democrat - and who has more guns than me! Our newly elected sheriff ran as a Democrat. I voted for him, even though I'm NOT a Democrat, and he has already gone on the record as being in support of this resolution. These are folks I don't care to piss off just when I'm going to expect them to be watching my six.
Alienating them in such manner will only harden their position, and is not conducive to converting them to our side. It may well drive them into the other camp.
There has to be a way to differentiate these common folk who identify as "Democrats" from the Socialists who identify as "Democrats", and I choose to identify the Socialist types as exactly what they are, and call them out as such. it would be nice, especially for VA where it appears the fight will start, if "Q" could get that through his head...
... unless he doesn't want to, and that's all part of his nefarious plan to assist the wannabe Overlords to divide and conquer. Food for thought.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’