Comments on: More Misunderstood Motives http://afcmin.org/ateam/37/more-misunderstood-motives Helping plans come together, one post at a time Sun, 03 May 2015 14:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.9 By: I’m Sorry, Who’s Dividing the Country? | The A-Team Blog http://afcmin.org/ateam/37/more-misunderstood-motives/comment-page-1#comment-3660 Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:02:37 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=37#comment-3660 […] If you’re interested in reading a more level-headed response to this phenomenon that I wrote back when I still naively believed I could reason with leftists about conservative ideas–before I had banged my head against the wall of “secret evil motives” so often that I lost the motivation to interact, read this.  […]

]]> By: Himjitt http://afcmin.org/ateam/37/more-misunderstood-motives/comment-page-1#comment-20 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:53:00 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=37#comment-20 Hey, Amy great post! Liberals seem to think there are two kids on the teeter-totter of distortion/ignorance/discrimination, the lib kid and the wingnut kid. But to me the two kids are like Frankenstein's monster and the flower girl in “Young Frankenstein” by Mel Brooks. The only thing is that Frank weighs in at about 450 pounds, and the girl goes flying over his head and into her bed upstairs in the chalet. So liberals will say, “do you agree there is distortion on both sides of the media?” Well, yes. . . ” Do you agree there is outright discrimination in red states as well as blue?” Well, yes . . .

]]> By: Amy http://afcmin.org/ateam/37/more-misunderstood-motives/comment-page-1#comment-19 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:46:00 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=37#comment-19 I'm not sure what it would take. The most I've ever been able to convince anyone is that I have rational reasons for my political positions. But then they insist that I'm just an anomaly; all other conservatives really hold those positions because they hate /fear people. I've literally been told this.

]]> By: afriendnamedben http://afcmin.org/ateam/37/more-misunderstood-motives/comment-page-1#comment-18 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:40:00 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=37#comment-18 I was talking with a coworker about Walmart once and we had a similar turn of events. (Walmart is taking over the world, you know.) (Only they're in line behind McDonald's and the Catholic church and Bush's posterity for the next 5 generations, but as of right now, the Masons have it.) :)

Well, we don't talk as much anymore. She was very ready to believe that picture of hers- that conservatives are self-righteous, oppressive, hypocritical pigs that, taking over the world in/with self-serving, oppressive economics and policy. Hopefully, there will be people in her world to create some cognitive dissonence between what she's told about how conservatives thinketh in their hearts and how she sees them living.

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