'Riot' involves dozens at Pennsylvania school

WND ^ | 1/11/13 | Colin Flaherty

[John O]

I have some very close friends who are white and liberal,

Then why are they your friends? I can see getting stuck with family members who are insane (I've got a couple myself) but why freely associate at all with people who are committed to destroying you, your country, and your way of life?

[generally]

>>why freely associate at all with people who are committed to destroying you, your country, and your way of life?

Two reasons.

1. They have many good qualities. I divide liberals into three categories: those who want handouts, those who want power, and those who think that being liberal = being nice. I would not get along with liberals in the first 2 categories. Those in the third category can be decent people who just do not see the whole picture.

2. If we do not engage with liberals and educate them, they will continue to live in the echo chamber of liberalism created by the media, the government, and their fellow liberals. They will never learn or change.

The liberal playbook has them chipping away at our values, bit by bit. I prefer to turn that around and chip away at their ignorance bit by bit. Liberals who will engage in honest debate, who are sufficiently open-minded to listen to a fact that does not fit with their preconceptions, are often shocked to hear one of those facts. When they are shocked, it is not like the movies where there is an immediate change of heart. It is usually a very slow process. It takes time for them to absorb a fact that they don’t like or that is counter to what they’ve been told in school or in the media.

However, I sometimes reach a point with liberal friends when I have to withdraw for a while because I can’t take it any more - the illogical statements, the repetition of lies they’ve heard from the media. It is sometimes hard to refute the mountain of misinformation they have bought into.