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Wait…I lost interest. Forget the whole venture[/quote]
lol.
I have friends at both extremes. I have to say those at the far right are a little harder to take simply because they speak more harshly. But the far left is just as extreme.
I tilt left myself so I understand the left better. But I grew up in a far right household and I have to say my dad’s intentions were good. As are a lot of the folks on the right. it’s just they see things from a totally different perspective.
Maybe it’s walk a mile in my shoes thing, I don’t know. I’ll never be smart enough to know why the world is the way it is. I’ve made peace with that.
I don’t think we would have ever had a Trump had we not had an Obama. I really can’t figure out what set the right off so bad about Obama. All I can figure is that he was black. And just half black at that – maybe the 1/2 thing is the real reason? Other than that, I really don’t have a good explanation. (not that I think that’s a good reason, it’s just one that may explain their reaction)[/quote]
Good points.
I think, for me, I feel really frightened and like throwing up or lashing out whenever I hear the word Jesus or Christian nation.
Really–makes my skin crawl. Makes me afraid. Makes me want the public speaker TO SHUT UP, generally…however …
One thing I like about trump is he makes christianity sound absurd whenever he talks about it. I wish he would talk about religion MORE.
I have no bone to pick with actual jesus or any teaching–just with literally anyone who politically talks about christianity. It seems self evident to me it should never be talked about. But obviously I’m wrong.
If the right would just stop with the jesus shit, I’d probably tilt right.
Honestly. Financially, I should be an old conservative Republican guy. I guess a lot of old jews just go with the Republican tax program.
I dont really, when I think about, care too much about the financial well being of other Americans than me. I’d be more than happy not to share with them.
But I was bred from a very young age by very sincere, paranoid, neurotic people…do not trust the gentiles. They do not mean well. Look for the exits when they start shouting about jesus.
We are not the type of jews who favor israel over anything. We are the old fashioned post holocaust socialist leaning jews. Old New Yorky type jews that read communist newspapers and protested for the Negro Cause back when that kinda shit was actually dangerous.
I’m not sure there are many anymore. We stopped breeding. We intermarried.
Only the orthodox stuck with the religious program. Israel uber alles.man, I cant stand israel either. And frankly, most liberal jews irritate the hell out of me.
The only group I can stand lately are the Buddhists.
All these bible thumping rightwingers, seems like they’ve called a temporary truce on jew hating because they like Israel lately.
But in my DNA, my cells know. They would love to kill jews as soon as the coast is clear. That’s our history. Get the jew. Kill it. In jesus’ name, amen.
Better, safer to go with an inclusive left than those right wing Christian’s with guns. They will never accept you. They think you are evil.
All this is my subconscious thought process, obviously may or may not be connected to any current reality.
But political leanings are probably far more connected to tribalism and subconscious leanings than logical thought processes.
I cant fault the right wingers…they were bred as they were bred. Black people are dangerous, maybe? Obama is an elitist affirmative action weakling who who took a white guys spot at Harvard and is golfing when he should be working, a typical lazy African american who wants to take my health care and give it to welfarians. It’s not even clear where he was born.
They are no more or less nutty than me. We are all raised to think our reality is reality.
