Is anybody interested in listening to points of view different from one's own?

Well, all power to you.

I’m just going to call them out as traitorous filth who hate America.

I’ve seen made minds change, including my own.

If you don’t believe it can happen check out the words and history of the song “Amazing Grace.” it was written by a slave trader after he had an epiphany. It has influenced generations .
 
What you are witnessing is simply the obvious. Since it's been amply demonstrated that the two prevalent political models do not work, since they have nothing to offer that hasn't already been proven to fail, they instead attack the other side. It's all they've got left to say; there is no evidence they are good, so they have to yell about how terrible the other guy is.

Politics is merely a branch of philosophy. The roots lie in ontology and epistemology. Social prescriptions not grounded in objective reality and logic are doomed to failure. Few are capable, or willing, to invest the effort to start from the beginning. With little or no training in how to use logic, they fall back on emotions to make decisions, with predictable results.

We currently have two gangs of cannibals fighting over who is going to win the game of musical chairs, whose interests are going to be sacrificed for the benefit of others. This grotesque spectacle has been going on for so long that most persons have come to treat it as inevitable, immutable. That is false.

The faulty premise is that social existence is of necessity a zero sum game.

If you are genuinely open minded, you might benefit from reading a few brief essays. I won't mention the author's name, since they have been subject to so much Ad Hominem attack over the years that the mere mention of their identity often causes people not to read what they've set down. Rather a classic example of killing the messenger when you dislike the message.

Essays:
Philosophy: Who Needs It?
The Nature of Government
Government Financing in a Free Society


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Another one.

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Off to IGGYland they go.

Bye Felicia.

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Yeah, in younger days, I’d patiently take time to say that this wasn’t happening and that this is a bad argument because so-and-so reason. But then I realized that it won’t matter, they’ll have moved onto the next lie even before it happens. And your own position will look weak because now your showing empathy to a bully.

Now, my new position is that these are traitorous scum who seek to enslave free people in the US and around the world. They deserve nothing but hatred and the dark. The only time they respect the flame of knowledge is when it burns them.


Except...

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthc...abortions-are-real-and-they-happen-every-day/

Which means all the rest of your nonsense is just as false.
 
What you are witnessing is simply the obvious. Since it's been amply demonstrated that the two prevalent political models do not work, since they have nothing to offer that hasn't already been proven to fail, they instead attack the other side. It's all they've got left to say; there is no evidence they are good, so they have to yell about how terrible the other guy is.

Politics is merely a branch of philosophy. The roots lie in ontology and epistemology. Social prescriptions not grounded in objective reality and logic are doomed to failure. Few are capable, or willing, to invest the effort to start from the beginning. With little or no training in how to use logic, they fall back on emotions to make decisions, with predictable results.

We currently have two gangs of cannibals fighting over who is going to win the game of musical chairs, whose interests are going to be sacrificed for the benefit of others. This grotesque spectacle has been going on for so long that most persons have come to treat it as inevitable, immutable. That is false.

The faulty premise is that social existence is of necessity a zero sum game.

If you are genuinely open minded, you might benefit from reading a few brief essays. I won't mention the author's name, since they have been subject to so much Ad Hominem attack over the years that the mere mention of their identity often causes people not to read what they've set down. Rather a classic example of killing the messenger when you dislike the message.

Essays:
Philosophy: Who Needs It?
The Nature of Government
Government Financing in a Free Society


For fucks sake.

The government of the United States of America has so far lasted 248 years - the oldest Constitutional government in the world.

You think you have a better idea? 💡
 
Need an ASPCA style commercial for the His Arpy's starving to death brain worms. I can hear Sarah now...
 
Slightly the other way. I take zero medical advice from politicians (take this shot and never get the virus, said the politician) and slightly more than zero from doctors. The trustworthiness of doctors and politicians rapidly converges in the more expensive fields of medicine. So I raise one finger. You can probably guess which finger.

I won’t argue with that. 😅

(Except that I recently finally found a great private practice doctor who takes my insurance and has more than 15 minutes to spend with me at visits.)
 
Slightly the other way. I take zero medical advice from politicians (take this shot and never get the virus, said the politician) and slightly more than zero from doctors. The trustworthiness of doctors and politicians rapidly converges in the more expensive fields of medicine. So I raise one finger. You can probably guess which finger.

He is probably very familiar with that finger. He sees it constantly all day and frequently shoves it up his nose searching for a "snack."
 
He is probably very familiar with that finger. He sees it constantly all day and frequently shoves it up his nose searching for a "snack."

Are you in depends yet? Sitting on a bench at the marina swearing at the seagulls as they shit on your bald empty head?
 
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Anyone (CuriousDick) who voted for / supports DonOld Drumpf DESERVES to be “called racist, sexist, white supremacist, and generally attacked” by people who know PLENTY about anyone (CuriousDick) who voted for / supports the racist, sexist, white supremacist (I’ll add: rapey, corrupt, fascist, traitorous, authoritarian) DonOld Drumpf.

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👉 CuriousDick 🤣

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One can only wonder what he did to be “called racist, sexist, white supremacist, and generally attacked” for EIGHT YEARS, and why he didn’t correct his behavior to remove the possibility for such assumptions…?
 
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