One of the biggest problems in our society today is a complete lack of ability to communicate anymore between conservatives and liberals. I would add for the sake of disclosure I am a conservative. I’m conservative not because I hate liberals which seems has happened to both ideologies today. I’m conservative because my allegiance is to the truth and facts, if liberals were promoting truth and facts I would switch, but they aren’t, and that’s where the real fun starts. Especially since todays liberals would never make such a claim, their allegiance is to an ideology and its gaining power and money no matter what.
The transference I see daily coming from the left is almost a Stockholm syndrome style cognitive dissonance phenomenon which occurs when a person holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values, or participates in an action that goes against one of these three, and experiences psychological stress because of that. I believe we as Americans have the duty instead of instigating anger, violence, civil unrest and the utter lack of consideration to even hear the other side to at least attempt to explain or have dialogue with our American counter parts.
I consider myself such a person, and have engaged many many times with liberals of all sorts. I do not anger easily, I believe in facts and truth not opinion and supposition, so when I engage in dialogue I’m prepared to back up my position with what I know is true from dogged research and reading which I learned to be quite competent in as an undergrad. Which leads me to my dilemma, the conversations always erode in to name calling irrational tangents that have nothing to do with the topic, floating into a never ending series of questions with attempts to associate the topic with bizarre notions that one is equal to the other. With comments like your truths aren’t my truths, or those are your facts not mine, as if either of those were debatable or subject to interpretation.
I honestly believe the only way we are going to settle our differences is through open dialogue. Somehow we have to show the liberals of today it is they who have changed, it is they who have gone awry. I would have voted for JFK, today JFK would not be allowed in the Democrat party. he was pro military, anti abortion, he lowered taxes, and believed government was to intrusive in our lives. None of those concepts are synonymous with todays Democrats even though you can find tons of videos with them in their own words claiming the opposite. Which leads me to my next hurdle in dialogue with liberals. At every turn they make the very claims I’m describing here about conservatives although the primary difference is proof, when asked for some verification for their comment on the few occasions anyone attempted to provide any, they were always partial truths or vague facsimiles never actual examples i.e. Trump is a racist (racist by the way is so overplayed now no one listens to it anymore) then when asked why they say that or prove it they either produce a video that shows Trump talking about illegal immigration citing the number of murders committed by felons who have been deported many times that come back and commit unspeakable crimes then saying these aren’t Mexico’s best and brightest sneaking across the border. But that’s true, and it has nothing to do with racism. So why is it liberals cant see that and make open borders their priority and not the safety of US citizens? So I produce video after video of their own political leadership saying the same thing about illegal immigration yet never doing anything about it but the opposite. And They then claim to be champions of the Constitution and rights yet constantly talk about repealing, amending or simply taking away whichever ones get in their way to dominate politically. Championing rights imagined that dont exist and only for a select group or minority never including everyone which the 14th amendment calls for. So I understand frustration with most conservatives with the idea of dialogue, I even understand that from the looks of it liberals are deluded, but I remain convinced open dialogue, even confrontation with dialogue is the way to go. Many conservatives see it as a waste of time and they dont listen to reason or facts. Maybe so for the moment, but eventually the ones that are able to understand will, So I keep trudging the road of happy destiny, for it is our destiny to return this nation to what the founding fathers intended and socialism is not it.