Seconded. And even when one makes excellent points, they fall on rocky ground.
I read about the man who engaged with the Imperial Wizard of the KKK and got a few hundred to leave the Klan; this is quite an achievement but the KKK has been an embarrassment for a century anyway. The point though is that achievements like this are exceptio…
Seconded. And even when one makes excellent points, they fall on rocky ground.
I read about the man who engaged with the Imperial Wizard of the KKK and got a few hundred to leave the Klan; this is quite an achievement but the KKK has been an embarrassment for a century anyway. The point though is that achievements like this are exceptional and rare. I'm not exactly inarticulate and in all the thousands of conservatives I've engaged with over the decades I have seen exactly two switch sides, and I don't claim credit for it. Two out of thousands is essentially zero.
So .. I've come around to seeing the other pole not as people who can be reached, rather they are enemies who must be soundly defeated because their triumph means the death of all life on earth. There may be some between the poles who have potential, but that center has become increasingly barren (please don't insult me with polls about "independents"; they're just too embarrassed to identify publicly with Republicans but that's how they vote) as the polarization intensifies.
Seconded. And even when one makes excellent points, they fall on rocky ground.
I read about the man who engaged with the Imperial Wizard of the KKK and got a few hundred to leave the Klan; this is quite an achievement but the KKK has been an embarrassment for a century anyway. The point though is that achievements like this are exceptional and rare. I'm not exactly inarticulate and in all the thousands of conservatives I've engaged with over the decades I have seen exactly two switch sides, and I don't claim credit for it. Two out of thousands is essentially zero.
So .. I've come around to seeing the other pole not as people who can be reached, rather they are enemies who must be soundly defeated because their triumph means the death of all life on earth. There may be some between the poles who have potential, but that center has become increasingly barren (please don't insult me with polls about "independents"; they're just too embarrassed to identify publicly with Republicans but that's how they vote) as the polarization intensifies.