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Peaceful Dave's avatar

We live in a truth and validity free world where belief filtered perception is a person's belief in what is truth.

When President Obama said that he wanted to fundamentally change America, it gave me pause. Fundamental change requires destruction of the old. How could someone who loves America as it exists in their perception not view him, and people with the same wish, as wanting to destroy America? It would be illogical for them to not think that.

When the far right wants to nullify the changes that have made the nation more humane, how can people who see these much-needed changes as improvement not view them as wanting to destroy the improved America of their vision? It would be illogical for them to not think that.

A conflict of visions in what is truth and virtue. I could quote the rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, "We both have truths, are mine the same as yours?"

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Chris Fox's avatar

This is well-expressed but it distresses me that you leave it at symmetry.

America needs transformation to survive, beginning with getting away from hydrocarbon fuels. The past means inequality, small wondere that some go so far as to say that slavery wasn't so bad. You got three hots and a cot, so what if the master got to sodomize your daughter.

we must not shy away from convictions.

We're better than they are.

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

Asymmetry is not a binary yes/no. That does not imply that I see equality in asymmetry. I agree with you in defining better value to one side of an asymmetric ratio, but sometimes "they" have it right. You grudgingly acknowledge it with the conservative view of trans radicalism. I admit that am a bit obsessive in trying to not become too ridged and dogmatic.

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Chris Fox's avatar

“Rigid.”

I think my credentials as a non-mindless progressive are established. I hope so.

I’ll bite. No mockery.

What do conservatives get right, aside from the gender horseshit?

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