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ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 10:36 AM Feb 2017

What is it that conservative voters just don't get yet?

In no particular order:

No, the liberal left doesn’t harbor deep-seated desires and grand plans to control every aspect of your life in ‘political correct’ totalitarian style. You’re being told that because it makes you easier to influence politically (there's nothing so unifying as a common enemy).

Yes, the folks on the left do love America too, and no, they don’t hate you or your freedoms. Whoever tells you these things is not your friend or ally- you’re their tool to the extent you believe that stuff. When lefties sound frustrated with you, part of that is they don’t like that you’re being taken advantage of in ways that affect everyone. Also, they’ve been trying to tell you this a lot, but it doesn’t seem to be getting across.

Liberals are never coming for your guns. They might want you to comply with some rules and accept some limitations to their use, and some are beyond angry with how the gun die-hards refuse to accept any regulation whatsoever, but it’s just. not. going. to. happen. The folks telling you it’s gonna happen are the same folks who just sold you your stockpiles of ammo at price-gouging rates because you were convinced you had to buy it while you could. They’re not your friends; you’re their marks.

No, lefties aren’t in favor of Sharia law when they make it clear they don’t like to see Muslims discriminated against. It means they don’t want the USA to act like a theocracy, not because they want to impose a Muslim one.


https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-that-conservative-voters-just-dont-get-yet/answer/Chris-Joosse?ref=fb
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What is it that conservative voters just don't get yet? (Original Post) ehrnst Feb 2017 OP
...that it is all not just about themselves. NRaleighLiberal Feb 2017 #1
They get the normalization of MiniPootin by the media with constant reference to "trump supporters" uponit7771 Feb 2017 #2
the dangers of a Scalia court eniwetok Feb 2017 #3
That the nation and world are enormous... Orsino Feb 2017 #4

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
2. They get the normalization of MiniPootin by the media with constant reference to "trump supporters"
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 11:05 AM
Feb 2017

... as if the M$M doesn't already realize they're the ones normalizing him

eniwetok

(1,629 posts)
3. the dangers of a Scalia court
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 11:09 AM
Feb 2017

Bork and Scalia were Reagan's payback to the Christian Right for joining the GOP coalition back in the 80's... and both had a dangerous agenda... to sabotage the Ninth Amendment, key rule of constitutional construction that placed on the government the burden of proving a legitimate social need to limit a right. Bork and Scalia wanted to change that to the government having the power to limit rights and the People had the burden of creating rights legislatively.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
4. That the nation and world are enormous...
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 11:35 AM
Feb 2017

...and don't match the narrow focus of the fake right-wing echo chamber. That morality doesn't derive from religion. That the economy isn't a zero-sum game. That there is no virtue in wealth. That race is an artificial construct used to manufacture lies.

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