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Cary

(11,746 posts) Wed Sep 25, 2019, 12:31 PM Sep 2019

It should be easier to be liberal [View all]

It should be easier when I am armed with facts and logic. It should be easier when my opponents are emotional basket cases afraid of their own shadows and dumber than a bag of hammers. It should be easier when I and my fellow liberals are the majority. It should be easier when my values are truth and justice.

Why is it difficult? Even posting here is a stinking food fight. Why?

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It should be easier to be liberal [View all] Cary Sep 2019 OP

Because big bidness, with the help RW media, has convinced many that only 'lazy minorities' benefit sandensea Sep 2019 #1

A combination of tribalism and laziness ismnotwasm Sep 2019 #2

It's more difficult to.... TidalWave46 Sep 2019 #3

Binary thinking. On/Off, Right/Wrong. maxsolomon Sep 2019 #4

I can handle gray areas Cary Sep 2019 #6

Yeah, they take glee in the Trolling. maxsolomon Sep 2019 #7

:) Who says we're ALL solidly liberal, though, socially and economically? Hortensis Sep 2019 #5

Hillary Clinton should be our president Cary Sep 2019 #8

:) Same right back. No one would want to be a Republican who's Hortensis Sep 2019 #10

It is no consolation that they pay a greater price Cary Sep 2019 #11

:) Yes, we're humanity's best, all great advances could and would Hortensis Sep 2019 #13

Hate, fear, and misinformation sell. It's good for the advertisers. Initech Sep 2019 #9

One of them tried to tell me that he didn't need to go to college Cary Sep 2019 #12

Oh yes I know a lot of these types. Initech Sep 2019 #14