MR Mister Loc: Washington DC

What has ego to do with voting? What is it that you smoke?
Voting has a lot to do with knowledge, that is the problem with stupid people voting. Your gang has for years given money, drugs, buzz and who knows what to the simple-minded to vote for the Commie left. It has been documented.

Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI

Well if one is going to be realistic all education can be called brain washing.
At it's roots it is about getting people to think in a way that lets people live together well.
Still needs a lot of fine tuning.

Seth

You mistake common sense and the love of liberty for ego. 😎

MR Mister Loc: Washington DC

Yeah, I have noticed how our kids in college are really great at letting any and all speak...that is as long as it's what they want to hear.

Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI

Ego is about thinking you know what is best (For your self) & wanting things done your way.
Your Ego is one of feeling you are superior to others.
Your Ego leaves you feeling that there are others that just don't belong in your world.
I have an Ego also.
My Ego leaves we feeling I an equal to you & that we both belong in this world.
(I have room for you in my view of the world, where you have less room for any one in any way different from you.)

This is why your way of thinking is loosing it's hold on what is going to take place in life around us.
Just a more homogenous world.
A more fair & equable sharing of life.

Seth

The purpose of education is to prepare the young to negotiate the future -- this means teaching them skills like math and reading, the rudiments of science; history as presented with chronology and facts, not politics based conjecture or a reshaped version to accommodate one side or the other of the incumbent political equation, and to teach them how the government works without "how it should work" according to the teacher's political dogmas. Politics neutral while, most importantly, teaching students to think for themselves, to form their own opinions based neutrally on evidence they acquire.

Unfortunately, while that's how the education system worked when I was young, it has, thanks entirely to the Democrats who have a monopoly on the system, been converted largely into one big "progressive" indoctrination system chocked full of "social justice" and "identity politics," wherein teaching all those necessary skills I mentioned above has become a low priority issue.

And it is reflected whenever one has a conversation with the average millenial -- in the name of political power hunger, the Democrats have managed to successfully trash what was once among the best education systems in the world.

No one can say they're not "leaving their mark," that's for sure, breaking the few eggs needed to make Stalin's "omelet."

Seth

No it's more that your side of the political equation demands that the rest of us sacrifice our morality, liberty and sensibilities to accommodate a worldview that is alien not only to all things American but also has a homogeneous track record for turning great societies into miserable shitholes.

Your side's strategy has most often enjoyed its success by preying on the desperation of society's "have nots," then when it has achieved "victory," dashing those no longer needed supporters' hopes with even more misery than they were trapped in before.

On the other hand, the Trump Administration's way of doing things has helped many of those same "have nots" lift themselves out of their ruts through opportunities presented by a strengthening economy.

Trump teaches them to catch bigger fish, your lot keeps them dependent on free sardines.

Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI

Look at it any way you want:
There are changes coming that will make the liberal views more predominate in the near furture.
We have been dominated by the far right for too long.
(This has left a huge void in fairness to liberalism.)

It is my contention that there will be a need to see that the movement is moderate.
It is important to keep a healthy balance between the conservative & liberal agendas.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

Floyd...you seem a tad bit confused. Resisting the NWO is not egotistical.

Seth

Except that the liberal "agenda" is an invasive one that forces itself on the unwilling and seeks to silence or destroy those who want no part of it

That sort of "agenda" has no place in a free society -- it would find a better home in the dustbin of history along with the USSR, The Third Reich and other totalitarian nightmares.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

I can't believe how some citizens want to lower their own standard of living, just because other nations haven't been blessed as we have.

With Floyd's plan, we would soon be a dunghole nation.

Carol Kelly

She would be in prison absolutely and so would many others. We have a rotten government with only a few honest people in elected seats. I believe Trump and Sen. Kennedy of Louisiana to be only two of those. There are, of course, a few others. We need honest representation for our tax dollars. This is a different subject but one that I feel is important right now...social security. What kind of men would take from old people who worked all their lives supporting a government plan to give to their own concerns. I’m speaking of using a trust fund to take and use for the care of illegal aliens, to try to balance the national debt and make presidents into millionaires.That’s what they’ve done and are doing and it needs to be stopped...like taking candy from a baby.

Carol Kelly

Amen!

Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI

I think you need to take a good look back at history & figure out just why & how there are people in desperate positions. There has been a lot of unfair acts against some groups of people.
You may never be able to reimburse any one fairly.
But where unfairness exists the situations can be relaxed or removed.

Seth

Floyd, no doubt a virtuous soul in his own rite, shares one important trait with others who have been seduced by the propagandists and liars on the far left; the profound lack of ability to perceive, even after being confronted with repeated historical precedents, that what he espouses inevitably leads to the creation of a totalitarian state, guaranteeing misery for everyone (except the "high on the hog" elitists who perpetrated the con on the country's rubes, dupes and dumbjohns so skillfully that they morphed quickly into useful idiots and fell right into line).

My money's still riding on the American people to see what the Democratic Party's trying to do to us in time to show the left just how potent the power of the vote can be when the voters have had enough.