Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Expressing certain beliefs labels one as a radical... Leads to ostracization...
Herd mentality...
Are you a liberal/Democrat/progressive?
I've spent a great deal of my life, boy and man, in California, both the L.A. area and San Francisco.
Though the climate here is far to the left of left and there are many who consider calling someone a Republican to be the ultimate insult, I have a number of conservative friends here and none of us are all shy about expressing our beliefs, from a Brit of Punjabi descent to a lifetime woodsman from northern Wisconsin.
When you give a plain spoken reply to some of these "progressives," the instant they realize you're refuting their party line, they scurry -- no, I'm not kidding -- scurry away.
The few that actually believe -- go figure -- the propaganda being dispensed by their media and politicians enough to offer up debate are easily creamable, and face-to-face they can't just throw out a laughter meme and hide under the bed (in one case we know if, clutching his inflatable doll and whining to it), so they resort to insults or nasty anti-Trump rhetoric.
Yet they know, or should be able to figure out, why the dogmas they follow are not even remotely the right fit for America.
I do believe, to large extent, that if the media simply did their job and reported the facts as they are supposed to be doing, today's Democrats would be lucky to hold more than 1/3 of either chamber at any time and they'd win neither the Popular nor Electoral votes in any presidential election.
Like the education system, the media has been subverted by the far left, Marx 101.
I grew up a Democrat in what we used to call a Conservative Democrat family. My grandparents had wasted no time on their respective arrivals in New York, they immersed themselves in assimilation, were profoundly proud when they became citizens. No one was even permitted, both having Polish or Ukranian relatives, to speak anything but English in their home. While my grandfather disapproved of our engagement in Vietnam, he used to say, "My country, right or wrong."
I saw the process of evolution the Democratic Party was going through as far back as the Carter Administration, and stopped voting Democrat altogether. Had my grandfather lived to see the Obama Administration and Hillary's antics, he would have changed parties by 2011. Seeing what they tried to do to Brett Kavanaugh would have broken his heart, because he was a man of honor in every sense of the word.
But... When Americans will ignore every sign of economic improvement and real concern for this country we've seen under Trump and still go along with the incessant hammering he receives from their political party and the media, and the "quality" of their children's public educations in a Democrat dominated field and still vote for those leftists, there is something very wrong with them.
Nothing, however, that deportation to someplace nice like Venezuela won't cure.