infinity ag said:
txags92 said:
infinity ag said:
TexasAggie_97 said:
Liberal women are some of the most vile and hateful people you will never meet. They have no tolerance for conservative men and are run 100% by emotion and social media and are not swayed by any amount of logic or reason.
Someone at a dinner party told me this. He said that if you meet someone (man or woman) who is very emotional about issues and can never argue something logically, they are a Dem/Lib.
Interesting.
I checked this out on my friends (male) and found that this was true. All my friends who took stands on issues in an emotional way were all libs/dems. Very limited reasoning. Many were under the thumb of their wives too.
It is also true that if you talk with people who argue all their issues with how they would like the world to be as a condition instead of how the world actually is, they are a liberal 100%. My brother is that way. He loves to argue issues like welfare or climate change or whatever in an "ideal world" where everybody is morally upright and nobody steps in to game the system and take advantage of things for their own benefit. But in the real world, that ALWAYS happens and to set up any system that ignores it is to setup a system designed to fail.
I confess that I was like that, 20 years ago. I used to think in idealistic terms. Very naive.
Until one day reality slapped me across the face really badly.
Now I have swung the other way, probably too extremely. I can see things that many cannot. I guess that is how we evolve. My default opinion is that the world is a terrible place with spots of goodness.
IMO its a bit more subtle. There
can be idealists and good rulers and good policy. But no real effective way to
pass that on, to transmit. It dies with that leader. Our Founders were clever in basically designing a system that part of the time gets in its own way. Because as said, there is NO way to make sure a "good style of rulership" is passed on. Even a blood son will often not measure up, let alone some designated successor.
So the most you can get is a "good period of rule" but not a "good government." So you can't devise policies that won't be "gamed" or "taken advantage of." So it is best to make sure what you do has sunset clauses, and is time specific, and not excessively powerful. If you say both sides are going the opposite direction currently, you are probably correct.