I think so many Democrats are clinging to the illusion that their party has not been taken over by the Marxist influenced far left! Although I'm a very conservative Republican, I was raised in the 1940s & '50s by two thoughtful "New Deal" Democrats who saw government as a legitimate tool to "liberalize" (in the old, good, "classical" sense of the term) our Nation and remake it to (try) to better live up to the promise of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which are enduring statements of the goals of classical liberalism. My Dad was an attorney who was for a time President of the Young Democrats of Oregon, and he even ran, unsuccessfully, for a seat in Congress. He voted for Adlai Stevenson but came to admire Eisenhower's administration. Unfortunately, he didn't live to see his party go off the rails! But my mother, who lived into the mid-90's (and her 90s), became totally disillusioned (that early!) by her Democrat party and although she never changed her registration, she ended up voting 100% Republican and conservative in her later years. I think there are a LOT of Republicans who were Democrats and who feel that their party left them behind (as Ronald Reagan did). These people like your neighbor are clinging desperately to an illusion that things haven't changed and they will NOT debate you on the facts because they KNOW that the facts are totally against them and their party, which is willfully leading our constitutional republic to intentional destruction!
Yours is a voice of sanity! Your mother became disillusioned by the Dems about the same time my husband and I did, during Clinton's first term. It was obvious Bill & Hillary were power-mad grifters who were only serving themselves. Also, we noticed that "progressive" policies caused far more harm than good.
I would like to have lunch with a Liberal to discuss the state of our country; but, I fear that it might devolve into either an argument or the Liberal would just retreat into his/her bubble, pretending reality doesn't exist.
They will retreat. To repeat my post above, they won't debate you on the facts because the facts make out that the Democrats are wrong on 99% of what they espouse. So they'll either resort to every strategy available to a losing position or just avoid talking about anything substantive.....while they launch ad-hominem attacks against you and your side. It's hard to believe, when someone does that, that they don't have a hidden agenda ("conspiracy theory" of yours they'll say). Either that or they're total morons!
I think so many Democrats are clinging to the illusion that their party has not been taken over by the Marxist influenced far left! Although I'm a very conservative Republican, I was raised in the 1940s & '50s by two thoughtful "New Deal" Democrats who saw government as a legitimate tool to "liberalize" (in the old, good, "classical" sense of the term) our Nation and remake it to (try) to better live up to the promise of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which are enduring statements of the goals of classical liberalism. My Dad was an attorney who was for a time President of the Young Democrats of Oregon, and he even ran, unsuccessfully, for a seat in Congress. He voted for Adlai Stevenson but came to admire Eisenhower's administration. Unfortunately, he didn't live to see his party go off the rails! But my mother, who lived into the mid-90's (and her 90s), became totally disillusioned (that early!) by her Democrat party and although she never changed her registration, she ended up voting 100% Republican and conservative in her later years. I think there are a LOT of Republicans who were Democrats and who feel that their party left them behind (as Ronald Reagan did). These people like your neighbor are clinging desperately to an illusion that things haven't changed and they will NOT debate you on the facts because they KNOW that the facts are totally against them and their party, which is willfully leading our constitutional republic to intentional destruction!
Yours is a voice of sanity! Your mother became disillusioned by the Dems about the same time my husband and I did, during Clinton's first term. It was obvious Bill & Hillary were power-mad grifters who were only serving themselves. Also, we noticed that "progressive" policies caused far more harm than good.
An excellent review. I think One of Socrates’ quotes is appropriate: “if the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
Even though many liberals are dogs, they will not roll over and expose their bellies!
Thank you!!!! I am especially interested in discussing the harm currently being done by Biden's policies.
I would like to have lunch with a Liberal to discuss the state of our country; but, I fear that it might devolve into either an argument or the Liberal would just retreat into his/her bubble, pretending reality doesn't exist.
They will retreat. To repeat my post above, they won't debate you on the facts because the facts make out that the Democrats are wrong on 99% of what they espouse. So they'll either resort to every strategy available to a losing position or just avoid talking about anything substantive.....while they launch ad-hominem attacks against you and your side. It's hard to believe, when someone does that, that they don't have a hidden agenda ("conspiracy theory" of yours they'll say). Either that or they're total morons!