Thu Mar 12, 2015, 07:08 PM
PCIntern (15,768 posts)
This came over me like a wave today...
during the past 37 years, I have found that I could and would have discussions about current events/politics with many many of my patients, mostly while we were waiting for the anesthesia to kick in, or for a glazed crown to come out of the oven and cool. But in the past three years, the number of these conversations has dwindled to a trickle...it is limited to my activists: Peace, civil rights, real politicos and politicians from State Government and City Hall, and a very few others with whom I have had real dialogue since Reagan ran and won in 1980. It is as though people are either talked-out or are afraid to discuss stuff which affects them and their families. this was not true in times gone by, and, I will state, many conversations showed how at odds some were with me in terms of these issues, but that we could have an honest discussion.
Now it seems that very few, even those who possess congruent points of view to mine, want to talk about anything except what they've been binge-watching on Netflix or TeeVee/cable. The reason that I noticed this is that I had an in depth conversation about the Ferguson situation today and I realized how long its been since I'd talked politics at all. A real loss: the discussion were almost always stimulating.
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Thu Mar 12, 2015, 07:13 PM
NoJusticeNoPeace (2,475 posts)
1. I have a theory, the right is so vicious, so full of hate and violence that we all have
to look over our shoulders if we were to do something as simple as say something nice about Obama or Hillary.
The right are very dangerous people.
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Thu Mar 12, 2015, 07:24 PM
tridim (44,726 posts)
4. Politics became toxic in my family a decade ago as a result of Faux ****ing Newz.
And as I posted earlier, my parents (R-always, Kansas) are completely fed up with Brownback and the GOP in general. They have voted Republican for 60 years.
I think hate media and the GOP have really screwed up here, they went WAY too far and now they are hemorrhaging loyal support.
Uh, this probably goes back to the presidential election of 1980, actually.
Up until then, while I was growing up, many people discussed politics, much as they discussed the weather, sports, or their latest vacation. Even if they disagreed.
It was because back then, a person's politics was about as important as about whether one collected coins or collected butterflies; about whether one preferred lemon pie or chocolate pie; about whether one wore size 10 shoes, or size 11 shoes.
Politics just wasn't a big deal; early in college, many evenings were filled with roommates and classmates disagreeing on politics.....but politics never interfered with friendships, or social associations.
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The morning after Ronald Reagan's landslide in November 1980, in which he'd ousted the incumbent, I abruptly and regretfully noticed the world had suddenly changed.
Unlike in 1976 or 1972 or 1968 or 1964--the memory doesn't go back to 1960--where the losers had simply accepted their loss and life went on, everybody still getting along with each other, now there seemed a whole lot of hate-filled, bitter, angry, resentful losers around.
Damn.
It was just a presidential race, politics; why did some people take it so seriously?
It was just politics, after all, nothing worth jumping up-and-down getting red-white-and-blue in the face about.
That's when it became impossible for decent and civilized people to be friends with those on the other side of the aisle. And they started it; we didn't.
I wouldn't go yo a moonbat dentist. My dentist tides a Harley. The ladt time I went in
2) He wouldn't let the novacaine soak in long enough before coming at you.
:drunksailor: :lmao:
I'll tell you why I dropped my dentist. 1) His wife was just indicted for trying to put a hit out on her son-in-law, and it's been suggested her husband the dentist knew all about it, and 2) He wouldn't let the novacaine soak in long enough before coming at you.
The DUmmy dentist should look at his patient list, and ask himself how many he drove away with his incessant moonbattery.
I wouldn't go yo a moonbat dentist. My dentist tides a Harley. The ladt time I went in, he asked me if I had any rides planned for this spring. I said 'unghahaha'. That is about as in-depth as it can get when the dentist has both hands in your mouth, along with a Dremel tool and a power washer.
But I'm not bitter about my last dental experience. :rant:
Response to PCIntern (Original post)
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 07:13 PM
NoJusticeNoPeace (2,475 posts)
1. I have a theory, the right is so vicious, so full of hate and violence that we all have
to look over our shoulders if we were to do something as simple as say something nice about Obama or Hillary.
The right are very dangerous people.
Accuse others of what you are doing.One of our fellow cavers has that as a sig line.
Alrighty, to begin with, I'd say we officially NEED to have NoJusticeNoPeace be one of the Top DUmmies of 2015
The most my dentist has ever said was "are you feeling any pain?". And I've either mumbled "no" from the chair or "yes" hanging from my nails on the ceiling.
If he maintains productivity throughout the year, he could be a contender.
Which reminds me.
How long do you suppose the Big Guy needs to survive in order to place high in voting?
I say if he winks out before Labor Day, he'll be forgotten by the time voting rolls around in December.
He's being aided by an exceptionally weak nadinless field this year.
As you know, the level and quality of "inventory" for the DUmpster is a daily concern of mine.
It's early yet, but thus far I ain't seein' much.
It should be of concern to the primitives too, because remember, the DUmpster's the only place on the internet that pays any attention to them.
How would our good friend Doug Bulna fare if he came back strong, or even came back at all ?