I find it interesting that you're confident there is a right and wrong side. Personally, I’m deeply conflicted. As a long-time conservative, there are many reasons I dislike Trump and his style of governance. However, many conservative principles still resonate with me, while certain liberal ideologies are quite unsettling. I can’t and w…
I find it interesting that you're confident there is a right and wrong side. Personally, I’m deeply conflicted. As a long-time conservative, there are many reasons I dislike Trump and his style of governance. However, many conservative principles still resonate with me, while certain liberal ideologies are quite unsettling. I can’t and won’t support Trump as the party leader, but I also can’t bring myself to vote for a party whose principles I don’t fully believe in. When you mention 'MAGA,' are you referring to its supporters as being on the wrong side, or the Republican Party as a whole?
In my view Trumpism/MAGA is a spinoff from the traditional Republican party and I know many Republicans (I live in a deeply red state) vehemently disagree with his brand of government and politics. But like you they also don’t agree with many of the policies of the Democrats so they feel stuck. For America and its experiment as a democratic republic we are at a pivotal moment deciding if our experiment continues or if we take the authoritarian road that other countries have taken. I believe as citizens and human beings we agree with most things in life but politics and especially fear based politics want us to believe we not only disagree with each other but we are not even close together in anything and therefore we need “them” to save us. Politics has become our new religion. I don’t want to live in a world where I can’t love my family, friends, neighbors, co-workers and community members because the political sides tell me I shouldn’t or can’t because they don’t think like “us” and we need to either convert them to our way of thinking or drop them. That’s not a healthy society. If we’re talking about how to disagree better then it starts with being totally honest and transparent with each other and knowing deep down that the other person standing across from us has fears like us but more importantly wants to live with love, joy, peace, and security. I appreciate your comment and will be more mindful of how my comments come across to others.
I find it interesting that you're confident there is a right and wrong side. Personally, I’m deeply conflicted. As a long-time conservative, there are many reasons I dislike Trump and his style of governance. However, many conservative principles still resonate with me, while certain liberal ideologies are quite unsettling. I can’t and won’t support Trump as the party leader, but I also can’t bring myself to vote for a party whose principles I don’t fully believe in. When you mention 'MAGA,' are you referring to its supporters as being on the wrong side, or the Republican Party as a whole?
In my view Trumpism/MAGA is a spinoff from the traditional Republican party and I know many Republicans (I live in a deeply red state) vehemently disagree with his brand of government and politics. But like you they also don’t agree with many of the policies of the Democrats so they feel stuck. For America and its experiment as a democratic republic we are at a pivotal moment deciding if our experiment continues or if we take the authoritarian road that other countries have taken. I believe as citizens and human beings we agree with most things in life but politics and especially fear based politics want us to believe we not only disagree with each other but we are not even close together in anything and therefore we need “them” to save us. Politics has become our new religion. I don’t want to live in a world where I can’t love my family, friends, neighbors, co-workers and community members because the political sides tell me I shouldn’t or can’t because they don’t think like “us” and we need to either convert them to our way of thinking or drop them. That’s not a healthy society. If we’re talking about how to disagree better then it starts with being totally honest and transparent with each other and knowing deep down that the other person standing across from us has fears like us but more importantly wants to live with love, joy, peace, and security. I appreciate your comment and will be more mindful of how my comments come across to others.