c'mon dude. the fact that you think this is a one sided thing means that you are the problem imo. youre galvanized against "the left." why? because the media you follow has told you theyre all the big bad wolf and you guys are just completely innocent sitting there trying to do whats right and youre being attacked for it. poor poor poor right wing victims. working at your lemonade stand and the bad liberal boy spits in your face and demands that you share your money.
LOL what? I'm part of the problem?
I'm part of the solution. There may be bad examples on both sides but this is not an equal and opposite situation.
First of all I follow a broad range of information sources because I have to. Liberals control a majority of it. They run Hollywood, the broadcast networks and their news outfits, multiple cable networks, most major newspapers and a large number of the most popular websites. Not only that I have plenty of liberal friends who are constantly posting leftwing propaganda on social media. The conservative blogs that I follow also quote plenty of left wing sources as well. I can't get through my life without hearing the liberal take on things.
right now, the right controls the govt. and the right has its own partisan hacks in the media just like the left does. left has cnn, you have fox. left has msnbc, you have breitbart......all shit. and so on and so on.
For the moment Republicans are a majority, but I'm not seeing much in the way of "the right controls government". Certainly I'm not seeing much in the way of a right wing/conservative policy agenda getting passed. I think more than a few of these guys are basically liberals who claim the right or conservatism for political purposes.
Yes, the right has (or more accurately had) Fox, but that is probably going to change as the Murdoch boys take over. The entire operation there is a mess. Even if that weren't the case Fox was the leading name in cable news but is dwarfed by the total leftwing/left influenced media complex. Even if you add in talkradio and sites like Breitbart the left has the advantage in total messaging by a big margin.
right now, id agree. but thats because the left feel completely shut out of political decision making atm. if the right had felt this way with the same political rhetoric and fear mongering from their partisan media, i feel like we'd be seeing very similar behavior. and even still, the VAST majority of liberals arent burning anything or hurting anyone. women's march....largest in american history went off without any problems.
They deserve to both feel and actually be shut out of political decision making, forever. For the last 8 years they have abused their power. Whether it's Obama's ill thought out plan to gunwalk weapons to mexican drug cartels, or his handing weapons to ISIS, or nukes to iran, or using the IRS and other agencies to go after his political opponents, or left wing prosecutors indicting Perry in Texas, the John Doe investigations in Wisconsin, or empowering activists to go after Christian small businesses they have been showing just how they should be kept from it permanently.
once again though, these people exist on both sides. in this very thread for example, and many others that im not even posting in, i get called out for being a "muslim apologist." the ones who do it completely misrepresent what my stances actually are, and just attach that label to me and put words in my mouth. why? im not really sure, but people on both sides of the spectrum do this shit.
I'll be honest but I haven't followed your posts closely so I couldn't speak to that. But I have very little good to say about islam. I have lived in a muslim country and been around many muslims. Most of them were decent to me, but most of them were not really following their religion as written. By that I mean that the true goal of islam is to conquer the world and violently subjugate unbelievers. So if a muslim is being nice to you he is either not really following his religion or he is tricking you.
again i think both sides are dealing with the same things. if youre a fascist, are you on the right? yea lol. but thats a very small number of people. just like the left now get labeled as "rioters," apologists, SJW's, even if they dont truly deserve those monikers. theyll have them attached to them just because of the actions of a small percentage on their "side."
Again the volume and intensity on the left side of things is much greater. A left wing nutter just tried to kill a bunch of Republicans at a baseball field. Now more than a few people on the left are actually justifying it by saying shit like "well they tried to take away his health insurance."
And speaking for myself, my reactions are just that, a reaction. Progressives have made it clear that they intend to demolish things I care about and use the government to go after people that want to hang on to those things. They are the aggressors in the culture war, and conservatives are the defenders. They have made it clear that they are going to use identity politics to scapegoat Christians, whites, males, and conservatives. They are making us the source of everyone else's problems.
It's also not enough for them to get "rights" for groups they politically favor. If people like me just want to opt out and live our lives without harassment they are going to call us bigots and discriminatory and go after us. They will use the full force of government and the power of the mob to make our lives hell and wreck us financially. And don't tell me it won't happen because it is happening. Just ask the bakers in Oregon, The Little Sisters of the Poor, Hobby Lobby, and many more.
