Posted on 02/25/2018 3:58:35 PM PST by AzNASCARfan
.....”We are a diversity of people with diverse interests and desires and yearnings about with whom we will and will not associate. The point of our Republic is to leave us free to our own interests with interferrence from the state only when our actions either invade someone else’s private property rights or invade his rights in the public sphere.....I personally don’t give a fig if I am “united” with some random set of citizens selected from Sacramento CA or Bismark NK and to have this discussion is to fall into the trap of progressives who would moderate or modulate our freedom of association including the freedom not to associate at all. “......
Excellent and I fully agree......
....” just trying to figure out how to get our message across on their platform”....
Better would be to re-enforce those on our platform, maintain and sustain it.....we have far too many who are not grounded in any standards nor understanding of what and why we stand as we do. Which is why there’s so much knee jerking reactions every time there’s even a small bump in the road.
Not a bad suggestion, I think I do that pretty well overall, but I can multi-task.
For me, Facebook is mostly my family & extended family to keep in contact with a few close friends or other friends of the family I have met along the way, lots of Libs and Trump haters. I would have never made the account. My mom it made a couple years ago when we were on vacation in Hawaii for 2 weeks, just so I could share my vacation photos with the family at home. Since I have the account, figured why not try to use it to advance our cause (conservatism) which is almost forbidden on all social media platforms now??
Sometimes I like to have fun and play a troll to jump into the dark side and try to persuade them, (read teach them a lesson) if nothing else, by holding up a mirror for them to see themselves in or maybe just the reflection of what is right even if they are not in the picture. Really just telling them what I believe which is usually the opposite of them.
I save that for far lefty sites and not facebook.
>> this is not Democrat or Republican issue
Unfortunately, it’s exactly that.
The Democrat Thug Party is firmly on route to becoming the unequivocal antitheses of the Constitutional Republic we embrace.
Wish I had your optimism on the possibility of even being able to relate to some folks w/o going insane first...
I understand the Libs want to give away our country, but I see this corruption happening on both sides of the aisle. I am continually mad that somebody I voted for does not do what he or she said they will during the campaign. They get there and seems like instantly corrupted or somehow leveraged.
LoL it does feel like banging your head against the wall sometimes but change one mind at a time right?? Like I said, on the comments sections, maybe I wont change the mind of the person I am arguing with, but MAYBE just somebody 2 days later reading through the comment section will, especially after they see how unhinged their side can be. Call me the eternal optimist, I try to find the good in anybody.
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