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 @Patriot-#1776ConstitutionCommentsStarted 2yrs agoActive 8mos ago

That was a sad attempt at a shoot-back

Claiming to be right all the time? How arrogant of you. I myself have changed my mind on a number of political things – I used to be an interventionist, now I'm an isolationism; I used to be a nationalist, now I'm a States' Rights believer; I used to be a protectionist, now I believe in free trade. I'm the one with the open mind here.

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  @VulcanMan6  from Kansas  commented…2yrs2Y

lol it was a low-effort mocking joke in response to a low-effort ad hominem counter...I didn't realize we were supposed to be taking these last few comments seriously? You are the one who responded with "well you're the stupid expert here, not me" to a simple counter-argument against an anti-democratic claim. Don't act like I started this.

Also, it's pretty ironic for you to insist that you have an open-mind, after literally calling me a "stupid expert" for calling out a flaw in a centuries-old argument twisted to be against democratic decision-making. Odd, if you ask me. And according to your logic, since I used to be far-right but now I'm far-left, that makes me inherently open-minded as well.

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington  commented…1yr1Y

Or it makes you susceptible to propaganda

  @VulcanMan6  from Kansas  commented…1yr1Y

Everyone is susceptible to propaganda, we are all just more susceptible to the kinds of ideas that we already believe in. I am more likely to fall for leftist propaganda because I have leftist beliefs, and you are more likely to fall for far-right propaganda because you have far-right beliefs. It's literally just called confirmation bias, and we all do it, whether unconsciously or not. The only way to differentiate is with supporting evidence and/or reasoning.

  @9CJ6CB6 from Virginia  commented…1yr1Y

Never before has that been better described.

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington  commented…1yr1Y

My beliefs are not "far-right" but in fact align with classical liberalism, a form of libertarianism.

  @9CJ6CB6 from Virginia  commented…1yr1Y

And it’s just that: classical. Not with the values of the majority of the population, or even most people out there today. When the world creates new rights, abilities, and freedoms, those who hold to the liberal ideas of the past become conservatives because they moved in a different direction. Is moving bad? Not necessarily, and this is one of the times it’s good.

  @@1876-Elbert from Colorado  commented…8mos8MO

I am absolutely astonished that there is one thing we agree on. The fact that anyone susceptible to propaganda. However, if I am looking at something through a Biblical lens, I am much less susceptible, and thus can make more clear-headed decisions, such as what is on God's side.

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“Throw out everything you thought you knew about this election.”

By Chuck Todd, NBC News:We are getting awfully close to the moment when it might be fair to say, “Throw out everything you thought you knew about this election.”We are now going from a presidential campaign that left the public disinterested and at times disgusted it to a campaign that I could see generating an electorate that might be as interested, if not more so, as in 2008 and 2020, two of the highest-turnout elections in the last 50 years.If the Democrats do end up with a new nominee — and it’s looking more likely by the hour that they will — that, too, is likely to suddenly trigger interest in what the new nominee has to say, which in turn could engage the electorate in a way that the pre-debate version of this campaign just didn’t.But before we get to this campaign reset, the Democrats have to figure out what their ticket looks like and, more important, how quickly they can get their ticket selected and certified by the party.As of this writing, my sources indicate to me that about the only folks who are still trying to rationalize Biden’s staying in this race all share the last name of Biden, with the possible exception of Biden’s longtime chief political strategist, Mike Donilon — who, as the gatekeeper of the data that makes it to the president's desk, is starting to get blame along with Biden and his family for Democrats’ being in this position.

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