I have also found discrimination at writing groups with a majority of media members. I have had to defend myself concerning things I have written. When I wrote about my father having been an attorney during the Japanese War Crimes trial, having written the new Japanese Constitution, been appointed by Ike to be the Chief Civilian Negotiator during the Korean Peace Treaty and receiving International peace awards from the Emperor of Japan and Queen Elizabeth. I showed the group the picture oh him wearing the award. One obnoxious Democratic member always called me "Lieing Repub" and when I told tem he was my father he told them I was telling lies again.
At the next meeting I showed them my birth certificate he said anyone can get a copy of a birth certificate. Another member of the media said to him "Doubting Thomas, you brag about your brilliant research abilities and at the next meeting you bring document proof he is not his father. As a matter of fact you can ask me because his father and I have played golf together many times and I know that Dwight is his son. He turned to me and apologized for the behavior of his collegue. He added that I should not write about the time when my faly and I family had our pictures taken in the cell with Tojo, who was the Hitler of Japan. He added that he never wanted my nemises to ever embarass Dwight or me again or you will not luke it." (He was the editor of the paper where the man worked.)
I later joined a Senior Citizen Writing club. After six months the teacher told me that someone in the class had wondered about some of the assignments I wrote about my father and looked my father up on the internet and told him my father was one hell of a great man and contributed greatly toward international rehabitation of Japanese-American relationships.

Buckley was without a soul but he at least accepted fact and science to support his ideas and he certainly did not see education and knowledge as an enemy of his ideology. This is no longer the case on the right, thinkers like Buckley and George Will have been replaced with half bright liars and portly dope fiends like Dinesh D'Souza and Rush Limbaugh. What need is there for nuanced discussion when marginally literate racists are all ready won over by a clown leading chants of “lock her up” “build the wall” “drill baby drill” and MAGA? The majority of the rights ideology is dependent on lies such as denials of climate science, a misunderstanding of who benefits from public policy and most importantly the demonization of “other and outsider.” How does one reason with anyone who thinks that a horribly vulgar man who has spent his life cheating people, committed adultery on all three of his wives and is a proven compulsive liar is sent as a gift from God?

" It takes more than typing words to create a verisimilitude of erudition. The words must be placed in some sort of logical order also."
Don has a problem with that.

dongreen76 wrote:
"That's because to be conservative is to be non-secular.To be conservative is to be Theocratic.The problem here in the Good `Ole` U.S.of A.,is there are a certain sects of so called leaders that uses the concept of conservitism only to serve their not so Altruistic self serving agenda-
under clandestically cloaks of cover,they are just as progressively socially liberal as those that they promulgate as Paganistic,Anarchist Anti-Christes."

All those words to present BS!