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In reply to the discussion: I've always thought that people are basically good mostly everywhere [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)36. I'm afraid that woman was the reason I finally went and got
some books on the psychology and poiltical thinking of conservatives in general to find out what on earth was going on with them. She and her husband were such control freaks that keeping that need fed cost them a lot in operating costs and seriously impeded production and morale.
I didn't ask the business owner to explain herself, I wanted professionals to do it. Turned out I could almost like and almost respect her when I understood her better. It was the 1990s and more and more in our circles were becoming no longer friends. Same for them. Oh, they have a different way of seeing morality that helps makes sense of their...
But then came the aughts and post-2008s.
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Our current crop of republicans are exceptions to that. They've shown that they tolerate...
brush
Dec 2022
#3
I live in an area where they just shot up the power substations to stop a drag show
Jamastiene
Dec 2022
#5
I get the feeling that the motive was stopping the drag show and it's being covered up
Walleye
Dec 2022
#16
:) You've hit on a basic difference between liberal and conservative personality.
Hortensis
Dec 2022
#17
I'm liberal, and I'm afraid I've never believed that most people are basically good.
shrike3
Dec 2022
#26