Monday, I did something I don't normally do. I had a very brief exchange with a person in the comments section of a site. The person, female, I believe, was ranting about Trump's "muslim ban". She was questioning why he picked those countries. The question was answered by another commenter. She responded that he didn't answer her question. I explained why he had indeed answered and offered a link to some additional information.
Fortunately, I went on about my business for a couple of days and didn't see her response until today. It was unhinged.
Look, I hate Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. I'm sorry. I just can't stand them. They may be nice people in private. Al Capone was probably a nice guy to his friends and acquaintances. Jesse James, Bonnie and Clyde, everybody, regardless of their crimes and atrocities, has some good points. Hitler was kind to animals.
Obama is a petty, little affirmative-action tyrant, but he seems to genuinely care about his kids -- or whomever's they are. As long as he isn't trying to run my life, I don't care. I don't hate him the way I do the Clintons; Obama is an annoyance. Like hemorrhoids.
The truth is that we all like to have our biases confirmed. It's just human nature. Alex Jones and World Net Daily make good money feeding the self-delusions of people on my side of the fence. Not everything they say is wrong, but they aren't good sources.
It would be nice if, on the left side, we could point just to sites like the Huffington Post. Sadly, the unreliable sources of the left include the New York Times, CNN, CBS, etc. As has been evident throughout the campaign last year and in the two weeks since the inauguration, the media, in general, is aligned with globalism.
We need to stop thinking left and right. It is nationalism versus a one-world, globalist vision that would eliminate national boundaries and national sovereignty. The United States has bought into this vision more and more for the last seventy years. It has not brought us prosperity or peace.
Invasion by "refugees" and illegals results in greater power for and reliance upon government by more and more people. Crime goes up. More people are on welfare. There is a push for more socialism. Consequently, socialism begins to eat away the country's prosperity. If it is kept up, the end result is Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico, Greece, etc.
When a nation loses its culture through invasion, loses its identity, it is on the way to being made into the same kind of third-world hellhole that the invaders supposedly fled in the first place.
There are people who cannot accept this. They have a worldview that we can all live together in harmony, that all people, regardless of religion, ethnicity, ability, or background are the same. They believe that "experts" in the government can more effectively distribute wealth than the free market. And, like the women I mentioned at the beginning, they are going to cling to that worldview no matter what facts or evidence they see to the contrary. For every crime by an illegal, they will point to one by a native. For every abject failure of socialism, they will scream "Sweden" at the top of their lungs while ignoring the demographics, resources, and history that enabled Sweden's socialist experiment.
Their grip will not be loosened by logical argument because they did not reach their position by logical argument. They do not believe in their own depraved nature or their own capacity to be hoodwinked.
I say that not to disparage those who disagree with me, but more as a warning to myself to maintain a grip on self-awareness myself, to remind myself how easily I can be fooled, deluded and deceived.
Fortunately, I went on about my business for a couple of days and didn't see her response until today. It was unhinged.
Look, I hate Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. I'm sorry. I just can't stand them. They may be nice people in private. Al Capone was probably a nice guy to his friends and acquaintances. Jesse James, Bonnie and Clyde, everybody, regardless of their crimes and atrocities, has some good points. Hitler was kind to animals.
Obama is a petty, little affirmative-action tyrant, but he seems to genuinely care about his kids -- or whomever's they are. As long as he isn't trying to run my life, I don't care. I don't hate him the way I do the Clintons; Obama is an annoyance. Like hemorrhoids.
The truth is that we all like to have our biases confirmed. It's just human nature. Alex Jones and World Net Daily make good money feeding the self-delusions of people on my side of the fence. Not everything they say is wrong, but they aren't good sources.
It would be nice if, on the left side, we could point just to sites like the Huffington Post. Sadly, the unreliable sources of the left include the New York Times, CNN, CBS, etc. As has been evident throughout the campaign last year and in the two weeks since the inauguration, the media, in general, is aligned with globalism.
We need to stop thinking left and right. It is nationalism versus a one-world, globalist vision that would eliminate national boundaries and national sovereignty. The United States has bought into this vision more and more for the last seventy years. It has not brought us prosperity or peace.
Invasion by "refugees" and illegals results in greater power for and reliance upon government by more and more people. Crime goes up. More people are on welfare. There is a push for more socialism. Consequently, socialism begins to eat away the country's prosperity. If it is kept up, the end result is Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico, Greece, etc.
When a nation loses its culture through invasion, loses its identity, it is on the way to being made into the same kind of third-world hellhole that the invaders supposedly fled in the first place.
There are people who cannot accept this. They have a worldview that we can all live together in harmony, that all people, regardless of religion, ethnicity, ability, or background are the same. They believe that "experts" in the government can more effectively distribute wealth than the free market. And, like the women I mentioned at the beginning, they are going to cling to that worldview no matter what facts or evidence they see to the contrary. For every crime by an illegal, they will point to one by a native. For every abject failure of socialism, they will scream "Sweden" at the top of their lungs while ignoring the demographics, resources, and history that enabled Sweden's socialist experiment.
Their grip will not be loosened by logical argument because they did not reach their position by logical argument. They do not believe in their own depraved nature or their own capacity to be hoodwinked.
I say that not to disparage those who disagree with me, but more as a warning to myself to maintain a grip on self-awareness myself, to remind myself how easily I can be fooled, deluded and deceived.
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