Reply #31: I don't really know why I made the post

[leftyandproud]

I'm not trying to rationalize anything...certainly not the Iraq war. I just had some ideas in my head and decided to type them up (not as articulate as I would like). I just wanted to bounce this stuff off you folks and see the responses. I've seen people on our side recently becoming so extreme and so polarized that they seem to believe the pubs are inhuman, and that their motivations are evil. I really don't think this is the case...wrong...misguided...stupid...naive...maybe all of those things, but the average conservative is not evil. They don't want the world destroyed...They don't like to see U.S. soldiers dying. They hate it as much as we do. The problem is that they honestly have bought into this "liberation" crap, and believe "draining the swamp" of terrorism, and setting up democracies in the middle east is the best thing for the world. They honestly believe that this is a good thing and that we should be pursuing it by any means necessary. Like I said, it is a disagreement of POLICY, not end goals. We all want PEACE in the end. They just believe achieving it will take steps that we are not willing to take.

If we can't accept the fact that most republicans want the same end result as democrats, we will continue to lose debates, and elections, because we dismiss these people as evil and don't engage them, or even attempt to educate them about our ideas.

This is not helping anyone. If more people on our side would realize that the pubs don't want to kill half the planet...that they don't really LIKE being at war, then we can move forward. Everyone wants peace in the end. Conservatives just want to go about it the wrong way.

That was what I was trying to say.