03-25-2017, 08:46 AM
(03-24-2017, 03:38 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Correct. I disagree with their positions on a great number of things. I just know that there is a whole lot of talking at people going on in the political arena and very few discussions.
Fair point. When you initially raised that point I didn't think the post you highlighted was as off putting as you did, I just felt it needed a little unpacking. But I could certainly see where it would rub you or another the wrong way. It seems like when certain assumptions are baked in (for example, the "Reagan assumption" that "government is the enemy,") then all the discussion and reasoning in the world won't matter. Sometimes believing that people just condense their argument. I know I have been guilty of that but will try to be less "talk atty" and more "chatty" as you have called us to be.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
