The Art of Listening

[Bengalzona]

(07-30-2019, 10:37 AM)Dill Wrote: 1. I am suspicious when I hear Hillary appeared "worse" than Trump. Seriously, what are the criteria for determining better or worse?

2.  And I am suspicious of the claim people were not "heard" by the Democratic party. The party tacked towards the center to keep them in the '90s. Then those people complain about the results and vote for the party of outsourcing and tax cuts for the rich?

But the guy who wanted a Muslim ban and the wall was listening to them?

3. What sort of "thoughts or ideas" tend to elicit charges of racism or chauvinism, and "persecution"? Could these be what the Democratic party was not listening to?

1. and 2. suggest to me that while we are listening to Trump voters, they are listening to Rush and Fox and Drudge and World Net Daily.

I say this while granting that the points I am making here are absolute conversation killers with the people in question, likely to be perceived as more evidence of the elitism Fox warns them of everyday.

Personally, I have never been a big fan of the Clintons. So when my friends say they don't like Hillary, I tend to sympathize with them a bit.

The criteria for someone deciding they like one candidate over another is subjective, as it always has been. And that criteria may be logic and facts, or gut feelings and instincts, or emotions, etc.

I think many people on the Right feel it is more of a societal trend during the past fifty years towards things like political correctness. I think they feel these things have gone a bit too far. I feel that way myself sometimes. I also think that the minority with extreme Right Wing ideologies have piggy-backed on this growing discomfort and tailored their messages to that.

My friends tell me they have been criticized for not knowing what to call black people as a group or someone with gender dysphoria. For example, one of my friends told me he used to collectively call black people 'blacks', and then he was publicly called out for saying that. So he changed to 'African Americans'. He was also publicly called out for that ("not all black people are from Africa"). Then he chose to call them 'people of color'. He was publicly called out for that ("all people have a color"). In his mind, this seems to be some kind of game just meant to belittle hm in conversations.