(04-12-2022, 02:39 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(04-12-2022, 01:40 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Or, just maybe, you could stop living in your fairy tale world and frame that analogy correctly. Instead of an individual believing it, you could say that democrats are trying to pass federal laws that guarantee beastiality will be taught in schools. Would you vote for a party that supported that position?

If I thought that enough Democrats supported that position, and enough of those supportive Democrats could plausibly be elected to enact that position, then yes, it would and should affect my vote.  
Not every issue rises to that level.  Most don't.  Voting is a marginal activity and the strategy for voting should change based on which policies could plausibly be changed, or prevented from changing, based on our vote.
Based on campaign rhetoric, voting history, and the partisan makeup of the House and Senate, it was rational to change your vote in federal elections based on tax rates or health insurance policy.  Those were on the knife edge of being enacted or repealed.  But it was not, and is not, rational to change your vote in the general election based on the green new deal or slavery reparations.  Those are nowhere close to being enacted.

We're not talking about the green new deal or slavery reparations. That's the point. Your party is literally putting CRT training into federal programs, schools, and corporations. It doesn't matter if it's called CRT or not. It's the same idea. It's conditioning people to accept the change that's coming. Your party does not care about the constitution, individual freedoms, or independent thought. Sure, there are individuals like you and Marty that don't think that way, but the elites and influencers within your party certainly do. You just think people think like you, and that's a HUGE mistake.

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