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DJDuck
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California turned this Democrat into a conservative
My California upbringing shows that people will cling to ideas long after the facts reveal those ideas are flawed — a scary thought for the 2020 election
http://www.watcherofweasels.org/california-turned-this-democrat-into-a-conservative/
“My politics only started to shift in the late 1990s, not because I’d grasped that all the things I hated about California arose from Leftist principles, but because NPR was lying about Israel. That was my initial cognitive dissonance. The cognitive dissonance worsened after 9/11, when were told Islam had nothing to do with it or people such as Michael Moore likened the terrorists (who slaughtered innocents and whose goal was the subjugation of the world to sharia law, complete with sexual enslavement, second class citizenship, slavery, or death for “non-believers,” especially Jews, and the whole panoply of medieval punishments) to America’s own revolutionaries, who fought for individual liberty. (And yes, 18th C women didn’t have rights and the South had slaves, but the principles the revolutionaries advanced were inherently good and they paved the way for emancipation, women’s rights, gay rights, etc.)
After almost 40 years, I finally realized that I was no longer a Democrat. It was a shocking and uncomfortable realization. After all, I knew, or thought I knew, that Democrats are good and Republicans are evil. Was I now no longer good? Was I now evil?
I eventually decided that I was still good. ”
“f there ever was an indictment of Democrat policies, California is it. The problem, though, is that we live in the version of an old joke. You know the joke, don’t you? It’s the one that has a whose wife caught him red-handed in a compromising situation. Rather than apologizing, he demanded of her, “Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?” Even as California’s laboratory of democracy shows that every Leftist policy, when given play, creates social collapse and economic destruction, America’s Leftists, both inside and outside of California, repeatedly ask, “Who are you, the voters, going to believe? The Democrat Party or your lying eyes?”
Tragically, it’s a question that works. It took me 40 years to break free of that question, especially because the subtext was, “If you believe me, you’re good. If you believe your lying eyes, you’ve sworn fealty to the Devil.’”
“As conservatives like to say, reality always wins . . . but it can take a long, long time.
My California upbringing shows that people will cling to ideas long after the facts reveal those ideas are flawed — a scary thought for the 2020 election
http://www.watcherofweasels.org/california-turned-this-democrat-into-a-conservative/
“My politics only started to shift in the late 1990s, not because I’d grasped that all the things I hated about California arose from Leftist principles, but because NPR was lying about Israel. That was my initial cognitive dissonance. The cognitive dissonance worsened after 9/11, when were told Islam had nothing to do with it or people such as Michael Moore likened the terrorists (who slaughtered innocents and whose goal was the subjugation of the world to sharia law, complete with sexual enslavement, second class citizenship, slavery, or death for “non-believers,” especially Jews, and the whole panoply of medieval punishments) to America’s own revolutionaries, who fought for individual liberty. (And yes, 18th C women didn’t have rights and the South had slaves, but the principles the revolutionaries advanced were inherently good and they paved the way for emancipation, women’s rights, gay rights, etc.)
After almost 40 years, I finally realized that I was no longer a Democrat. It was a shocking and uncomfortable realization. After all, I knew, or thought I knew, that Democrats are good and Republicans are evil. Was I now no longer good? Was I now evil?
I eventually decided that I was still good. ”
“f there ever was an indictment of Democrat policies, California is it. The problem, though, is that we live in the version of an old joke. You know the joke, don’t you? It’s the one that has a whose wife caught him red-handed in a compromising situation. Rather than apologizing, he demanded of her, “Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?” Even as California’s laboratory of democracy shows that every Leftist policy, when given play, creates social collapse and economic destruction, America’s Leftists, both inside and outside of California, repeatedly ask, “Who are you, the voters, going to believe? The Democrat Party or your lying eyes?”
Tragically, it’s a question that works. It took me 40 years to break free of that question, especially because the subtext was, “If you believe me, you’re good. If you believe your lying eyes, you’ve sworn fealty to the Devil.’”
“As conservatives like to say, reality always wins . . . but it can take a long, long time.
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Even as California’s laboratory of democracy shows that every Leftist policy, when given play, creates social collapse and economic destruction,-Bearswin
Jesus Christ
Sorry to say you are inaccurate and basically using a straw man. “Jesus Christ”, I said no such thing. Is it your word attack or reading comprehension skills or both that need attending to? These are words of a man and his journey from clueless Lib to being a Conservative, So don’t post “DJ said”, when that is a lie.
California has the 5th largest economy in the world.
You lied and used a straw man when you attributed a quote to me that I didn’t make. Typical lib BS, use a lie and/or a logical fallacy and then try and obfuscate by addressing something else when called on it.. 😂
“DJDuck said:
Even as California’s laboratory of democracy shows that every Leftist policy, when given play, creates social collapse and economic destruction,-Bearswin”
It’s a simple question Einstein.
Derek, my $129 will be split this year between Mayor Pete and Bae Warren. This place is fucking hopeless.
How could I agree and know about the experiences and challenges of someone in California. If you can’t comprehend the main points he is trying to make you are completely clueless.
It's just mindboggling that they continue to use a rich, booming, prosperous state as an example
$1 Trillion in unfunded pensions ..............no problemo
California faces a $1 trillion unfunded pension liability and lawmakers focus on foam and plastic straws
Since it seems that you eschew edifying yourself maybe you haven’t heard about California debt and pension shortfall.
https://www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-california-debt-clock.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasdelbeccaro/2018/04/19/the-top-four-reasons-california-is-unsustainable/#77b55e8c3a23
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