(December 11, 2012 at 1:10 pm)whateverist Wrote: I think it is important for more people to hear from you and others who have become disenchanted with the republican party and its extremist policies. What might really help would be to identify what it is that attracted you to the party in the first place. Anything you can say that would help me understand the mindset of a conservative would really help me to understand the other side. I can't believe they're all callous or evil people but it is hard for me to fathom what positive motives move them.
I may be able to help you some with that. My boyfriend's family are religious fundamentalists who watch Fox News religiously. Yes, it would be easy for me to just brush them off as fundie nut-jobs, but to him, they're his blood. What's more, they created the environment he was raised in.
I can say this much: since he moved in with me and started converting to more Democratic beliefs, he's been shocked about how much of the various stories that Fox News leaves out. When Breightbart went after Acorn, Fox was all over that. Shortly later, when everyone found out his recordings were edited to suit the party line, he had never heard of that until I told him about it. Yeah, it's really easy to shape political opinions the way you want them to be shaped if you're willing to only tell part of the story.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama