Civility will reign at my Thanksgiving table. No Gruber people have been invited.
We’re pretty fortunate as our whole family is quite conservative. I honestly don’t even think I’d invite a friend or family member if I knew they were liberal. I’ve just gotten to the point that I really don’t associate with liberals anymore. Why be around people that are helping to destroy this great country? I’d rather distance myself from them.
CGato
Some of our past Thanksgivings were rather exciting prior to our liberal relatives moving south.
When I lived in Minnesota, I was invited for Thanksgiving by some liberals, and we did keep it civil. I must clarify however that these were old school Hubert Humphrey liberals, and they were pro-2A as well (as was Old Hubert).
That said, I had an aunt I treasured, an old-line, fire-breathing liberal who was actually up to the contest. We used to savor telling one another we were idiots because neither of us really believed it. What has gone from political discourse these days is that sense of mutual respect. It isn't pleasant without it.
Gruber, that creep with the yammering, nattering, Asperger voice.
Every situation I’ve ever been in where liberals and conservatives were mingled, the liberals proclaim their beliefs loudly and confidently, because what they think is that all halfway-decent people think. Conservatives are expected not to bring up “politics.”
It will be interesting, I have a few distant mexican inlaws of questionable origin scheduled to come over.
See if they show.
I was sitting next to a Republican. It was if I was sitting next to a KKK Nazi...
Both Democrat groups! Ha ha ha ha ha aaaaa!
Your attitude is downright rude,
your jokes appall me, they’re so crude,
why don’t you just drop dead and not recover?
You’re the mirror to my mood,
‘cause you hate me and I hate you,
at least we’ve come to understand each other.
-—”Hatred” The Kinks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHF4Lpdr-iY
Q. Why do Liberals lock their Doors?
A. To protect themselves from other Liberals.
Because of Hollywood movies, many Europeans feel that Americans come in one of two types: either cowboys or gangsters. Oddly enough, there is some truth to that stereotype.
If you think about the lives of cowboys and gangsters, you see how very much conservatives are like cowboys and liberals behave like gangsters.
Cowboys believe in self-reliance, hard work earns rewards, honesty is the best policy, and that the measure of a man or woman is found in their character. Their view of government is a gentleman’s agreement for mutual benefit.
The gangster way is always an “us vs them” relationship between our gang and other gangs. Their purpose of government is simplistic, to reward their friends and punish their enemies. Everything the gang does is at the direction, and for the benefit, of the capo, or great leader. In turn, he trickles down rewards to his top lieutenants, who reward their subordinates, etc.
But this is all background. Now imagine a dinner table at which is a cowboy and a gangster. The cowboy does not trust the gangster, because he sees that the gangster lacks character. The gangster sees the cowboy as “not of the family”, so he is an outsider, by default an enemy.
But because of his upbringing, the cowboy extends common courtesy to the gangster. The benefit of the doubt. But the gangster wants nothing to do with it, because he sees the cowboy as an enemy, who should get nothing but punishment.
The gangster tends to act out of the seven deadly sins: pride, wrath, greed, gluttony, lust, sloth and envy. Thus he really despises the cowboy, because he doesn’t embrace all of those and all at once.
The gangster is nothing but flaws, but the cowboy’s flaw is that he hopes that if he is diplomatic enough the gangster will behave himself. And this is the gist of the article, the hope that “common ground” can be reached between to people whose very substance is diametrically opposed.
The cowboy is as likely to get a reasonable response from a rabid dog. It’s a pity, thinks the cowboy, because I like dogs. But it’s a waste of time to think that a rabid dog will ever be anything but what it is. The same with liberals.
We don’t invite Democrats for Thanksgiving.
liberals must be told they are leftists. They should not be allowed to hide behind “classical liberalism” or any semblance of reason.
They have abdicated all reason with the Obama administration, obamacare, reid, the entire democrat party, endorsement of hedonism as equal to marriage, and the collapse of the ivory tower.
