Deal with it. Otherwise we’re just like the lefties and their victimology.
If something is your choice, be it politics, or religion or (arguably) sexuality, then you make your choice and take the consequences.
This is a plethora of false premises and will take some time to sort them all out. I will post again when sorted out.
“I valued truth and reason over narrative and emotion”
This is what it comes down to.
The liberal irrationality is frightening.
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My lib sister in CA, who's extra-curricular activity is showing up wherever Susan Sarandon happens to be protesting, actually asked me one time. "We can't figure out how you decided to become a conservative." I said, "Do you really want to know?" She said yeah, so I explained.
"When I was in college, I met a group of people who were probably the most immoral people I had ever met in my life. A professor living with a student, another professor who regularly dated two guys at a time while living with a guy who liked to "bare" himself, you name it, including drugs. And they were all democrats. I decided that I was not like them. And thank God for Ronald Reagan."
She actually didn't blow up at me for my answer and it did shut her up about politics for a bit.
I realize I am supposed to fell sorry for this person; I do not.
Setting aside the insurmountable difficulty I have with separating conservatism from morality - something the Neocons specialize in doing - I do not personally feel much obliged to render sympathy.
I have lived my entire life in one of the most leftist urban environs in America, and have been subjected to ridicule (since Fourth Grade), enmity, and have had my livelihood gratuitously threatened twice - merely for being a respectful conservative.
I do not wish this person ill, but I do not consider such as he a conservative, and I certainly do not think he has suffered worse than I have for whatever passes in his life as being conservative.
There is an even more fundamental difference. I value freedom over tyranny. Truth and reason vs. narrative and emotion are only the tools used to further the goals.
In their obsession with eradicating language and points of view that feel oppressive to some marginalized groups, the left has pushed others to the margins and suppressed their voices.
The left is behaving now as it did during its ascendance to power in 1930s Germany or 1910s Russia (or in most places in which the left took power). The left is not just trying to suppress speech; they are actively trying to intimidate and, in some cases, commit violence against people who are standing up for freedom. As the left become more bold in these tactics, our freedom is in ever increasing danger of being crushed.
Equating bung hole pirates and conservatives is a bit much.
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Leviticus niv
18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...