(December 25, 2016 at 12:57 am)scoobysnack Wrote: Regarding this post, the reason most don't want to perform is because everyone thinks he's what the left calls him, which are numerous names, and they don't want to be labeled as such. This is how PC controls people from straying away from the cult and plantation I left.
The funny thing is this: I'm a registered Libertarian; I cotton to small government in most cases, support an almost-isolationist foreign policy, and have no boundaries on my speech imposed by the tastes of others -- yet I've been called "libtard" simply because I find the radical right as repulsive as the radical left. I think you've got filters which attenuate your view, leading you to think that one side (which, coincidentally of course, disagrees with your positions) is playing foul ball.
The fact is that politically speaking, America is suffering through a period of evacuated middle-ground; there's a no-man's land between the extremes on each end of the spectrum which works to shout down moderate, centrist voices, which is what this country really needs, in my opinion. I think both sides have good and bad points, but the fact is that if a Republican said the sun rises in the East, a Democrat would cry foul and check the sky -- and vice-versa.
Such polarization as has been going on in this country for the last 25 years will be the death of us unless we actually do something about it. First, we need to shitcan the knee-jerk responses ("He's a Republican, that must be wrong!"). Second, we need to get away from the vitriol. Third, we need to see that while, say, not all Repubilicans are racist, the policies they might espouse can and do have racial implications, leading non-Republicans to cry racism.
In short, there's a lot of people in this country who need a nice hot cup of shutthefuckup, and no one faction or outlook is exempt from that.
