I’m not sure what the point of your second sentence is. My point is that he might not have been as friendly to you if he knew you disagreed with him.
For that matter, if there were no displays of conservative/Republican allegiance on his truck, how do you know what his politics were?
I’m going with rural Western Pulaski county, AR.
I believe that illustrates that we can coexist if we don’t get in each other’s faces. Which includes bumper stickers and walking around Wal-Mart with firearms.
If one side has to refrain from posting bumper stickers to get the other side to stop carrying guns in Wal-Mart, the other side is a bigger part of the problem.
But someone has to start. I don’t put stickers on my car, anyway.
I’ll repeat here what I said in this thread:
The other day, I saw a truck with “TRUMP 2024 - F*CK YOUR FEELINGS” in big letters. How should I establish a dialogue with that person?
If you’re someone who listens to reason and can change your mind when shown that you’re wrong, you may be projecting when you think everyone is like that.
Of course. No everyone is anything. I do recall that he knew after she opened her mouth that she was a Yankee.
You’ll start with that. Then it will be “don’t put signs for democrats on your lawn”. Then it will be “don’t advertise for democrats in any form”. Then it will be “no democrats in the primaries” Then it will be “no democrats allowed in the elections”.
Slippery slope argument for sure, but I don’t see Republicans giving you ONE SINGLE INCH. Ever. It’s a one way street with them. They hypocrisy about this does not even enter their minds.
You’ll give and give and compromise and compromise until you have nothing. That’s the end game for them.
I don’t see how you figure that.
Precedent is, however, one reason they fear gun control. If we won’t let them walk through Wal-Mart with a weapon, the next step will to prevent them from keeping one at home.
See, we do think alike in some ways.
I propose a wager.
You carry a Biden sign at a Trump rally. And I’ll carry a Trump sign at a Biden rally.
First person to get his teeth punches out loses.
My plan is to not get in each other’s face.
I had a epiphany a few years back: Trickle-down economics is to the Right what Communism used to be to the Left. An economic theory that sounds good in principle, but which fails all the time, because real people just don’t act in the manner the theory thinks they do.
The difference is, most left-wing people have given up on pure communism, while most right-wing people still worship trickle-down.
When was the left adoring communism the was the right adores trickle-down economics? You can find an equivalence between the right trying to stop members of the communist party from working to make a living and feed their families like the way the left tried to stop people who supported trickle down economics from working and to make a living and feed their families, except the left never did that.
Is trickle down still a thing? He should have called it “flow down economics”, but then still bought it.
Tri-Polar orders a yacht, and my hardware store sells a whole bunch of nuts and bolts to the company making it.
You have to go back a ways, but it’s there.
And my point wasn’t about how each side uses their flawed theories, it’s that they both have/had flawed theories.
I only call them “deplorable” because they keep calling me “faggot.”
It’s nice that, as a straight white person, you were able to have a friendly interaction with another straight white person. Folks that don’t fit into those categories have a very different experience of these “normal people” than you do.
When Clinton said that that was about half of them, they all got offended, and then all started calling themselves “deplorables”. They ARE self-identified bigots.
Of course they do, but the left wing flawed idea of 100 years ago was a foolish belief in socialism that was never manifested in the economy. The right wing ideas of that time was laissez faire economics which sent the country’s economy into a tailspin. Comparing the left wing flirtation with pure socialism a century ago to the embrace of trickle down economics by modern conservatives is absurd.
The problem is that they consider such things as going to the bathroom, or for that matter even existing as getting in their face.
Not in our economy, no, but it did manifest in a lot of other places, and lots of Westerners held those places up as examples to be followed, even as they lagged behind the West.
Or did you forget about that whole Cold War thingy?
You mean like western Europe, or Australia, or Japan, or Canada, or pretty much anywhere else in the First World other than the US?