Posted on 03/03/2012 5:59:02 AM PST by Kaslin
Karl Marx defined peace as "absence of opposition to Socialism".
Similarly, Ms Wagman would only want polarization, incivility and divisiveness to disappear on HER terms, namely the surrender of conservatives to adoption of HER viewpoints, rather than HER choosing to be more civil and truly tolerant.
I have heard that it is possible for a conservative republican to be friends with a liberal democrat. It does require a strictly-adhered to agreement between the parties that nothing political will ever be discussed. Beyond that, I think it’s a bit of a minefield to navigate social and cultural discussions, though I do know of people who have pulled it off for years.
A spot-on example of why I would not share one moment of my existence in the presence of a liberal, no matter what party affiliation and even a blood relative. They simply do not matter to anyone who appreciates life.
The lefties create nausea in me. I refuse to have friendships with such destructive losers...be they family members , coworkers or whomever. Life is too short asnd too valuable to waste it engaging these pathetic degenerates.
Diana Wagman was a professor in the film program at Cal State Long Beach.
So much hypocrisy in this, from so many different angles-the living breathing personification of liberals who want to impose their “morality” on others but not live with the consequences themselves. I bet she loves higher gas prices.
Hypocritical liberal moron.
PS She now is a “writer:”
Diana Wagman is the author of the novels “Skin Deep,” “Spontaneous” and “Bump.”
That’s pretty good for a Saturday morning.
LOL.
They are drones and not worth wasting your breathe over, although I always give it a try.
They have no morals, they know they have no morals, so to be able to live with themselves they project that no one has any morals but that they themselves are superior for admitting not having any morals.
Forum gets entirely too serious, sometimes.
I am a white female. Aside from the fact I’m female, nobody has any reason to assume I’m liberal. Yet liberals are always spouting off their opinions in front of me, assuming I’ll agree. That’s just how liberals are. The schools and the media are constantly patting them on the backs and telling them how right they are. So they assume that everybody agrees with them, (except for maybe a few gun-toting rednecks in flyover country or something.) So liberals shoot off their mouths, never stopping to think that maybe their audience disagrees or might be offended.
A most excellent piece of work, sir!
IMHO, you should start a thread with this essay.
PS It is too well written to be hidden away in the middle of a thread.
By Gov't subsidies, of course.
Lady, if you personally had to really take care of someone less fortunate, you wouldn't have the first idea of how to proceed.
I cannot abide LIEberals. And will not tolerate them in my presence.
Mainly because my experience of them is that they LIE. They have to LIE to themselves and to everyone else, including their LIEberal FRiends, to justify their pathetic existence.
That is why, when I wish to refer to “Progressives,” I refer to them as LIEberals. I also refer to them as LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist Bastards FRom time to time.
Over the years, our society has gotten less tolerant of people who take exception to what, in my younger days, were “fighting words.” I grew up in the 50s and 60s, and back in THAT day, people were held accountable for their words and actions. A “Knuckle Sandwich” was often the reward for saying or doing something that was offensive. The threat of a “Knuckle Sandwich” often kept the rhetoric in a respectful place.
Then, something changed, and people began to be able to bully folks without having to take responsibility for their words or actions. Oftentimes, the offended person, while very much in his/her right to be offended and seek redress via a FRiendly punch in the mouth to teach the offender a lesson in civility, was arrested.
WELL! I don’t need to expound any further, do I? As soon as it became legal for these idiots to spout off and demonstrate without being held personally accountable for their words or their deeds, our civility began a downward spiral.
Somehow the First Amendment, which really only allows us to criticize the government, has been transmorgrified into laws allowing (nay, ENCOURAGING!) people to say & do most anything without being held accountable.
That is my opinion on why the USA are on our way to Hell in a handbasket.
This is one of the things she says in her article.
Is she so short-sighted that she thinks nothing bad has happened to him in his life?
Likely some of the hard knocks of life are what has made him want to be self-sufficient and free of Gov't so he can make his own way.
She's a dimwit.
That's a good attitude. Now that I am away from work (retired), I have no need for even that since I have no "colleagues." Thank goodness.
I avoid neighbors all together (and where I live, they most likely are conservative) since I think it is a mistake to strike up any relationships with them. Think about it: if you make friends with neighbors and the relationship goes really sour, you have your worst enemy living next door.
Are you not in a position to set them straight as to your views?
And that is the truth of it.
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