I manned up and admitted that I can be wrong SOMETIMES while you still sit there claiming you are right ALL THE TIME and never admit that you are wrong about anything.
Well, let me say (while not even pretending to ignore the fact that you read
that post despite having me on Ignore, obviously because you think you have the moral high ground this time and wanted to respond), by saying that, hey, I know you think I'm a jerk, but I hope you'll agree I'm humane enough to recognise the position yer in. I'm not smart enough to be a sociopath incapable of compassion, to apply a recent exchange in these parts.
But here's how I'd say this happens: I'm very cautious in making judgements. Unless I'm fairly certain of my position, I'm reluctant to say anything more than a sincere "Do ya think that maybe … ?" Otoh, I feel that you just go right at it with stuff like "Liberals all support unlimited deficit spending and debt," when there's really no basis for it.
The irony is that I'm a fiscal conservative. I was raised by a bookkeeper who voted Republican for many, many years … until I started working on her and eventually got her to the point where, in her last two presidential elections, she joined me in voting for Ralph Nader. (The Democrat always wins in RI, so those were votes designed to influence the party to adopt more of his policies and to encourage people like him to run.)
Why can't you take my word for it that there's no such thing as this threat to fiscal sanity from the Left? It's all in yer imagination. I in fact feel bad for mocking you about MMT. Hey, I have a bad temper and a short fuse, and you get on my nerves. That's
my fault. But you just … Ignore me when I try to convince you that you should be WORKING WITH US. Yer
not a bigot, yer
not a moron, yer
not ignorant or uncaring.
You want to help clean up the slums. I would spend eternity in Hell if I could play a role in making that happen. I'd be very unhappy about it, but I'd do it. I figure the Lord would pull me out and spare my soul in the end. That's about the extent of my "faith."
Anyway, to cut to the point (don't want another tldr if I can possibly avoid it), I'm effing
begging you to trust me, to trust my judgement, to trust what I say about what the Left wants. I never lie, and again, I'm very cautious in making judgements. There are millions of decent, middle-class, moderate white Americans like you that MUST unite with decent, working-class, liberal Americans like me if we're going to solve at least some of our biggest problems before a new set develops.
You know there are a number of people I'll never be able to reach in this community, and they represent millions more who will
never join in this effort I'm describing to do the kind of things our candidate, Governor Kasich, pushed for in his campaign.
Please, please help me. Help me so that I don't need to cry anymore on my way home from doing work in the state prison after visiting with people who never had much of a chance in life and have now thrown away what little chance they had, or from the state psychiatric hospital where I visited people who didn't get the help they needed when they still could have been saved from years if not a life of institutionalisation.
Help me get over the pain I feel tearing me apart when I see little black kids living in poverty in the slums in Providence. If I feel there's hope, more hope than there is now, of moving QUICKLY, RAPIDLY, ENERGETICALLY to end this monstrous pile of human misery that's been weighing down on me since I was a child, … I'll breathe more easily.
I'll figure that the efforts I've made over decades to reach out to good people like you who are perhaps justifiably suspicious of liberal Democratic policies to try to assure them that, no, we are NOT going to just hand out money to the poor and fail to solve problems have
not been made in vain.
Trust me. It's true that, as you say, I'm "right ALL THE TIME." That's why I "never admit that I'm wrong about anything." If there's much of any chance that I could be wrong, I will NOT make a declarative statement. That would sort of be like lying, and I don't lie. As Frumpy would say, "
believe me." "
Believe Tom Robinson." Please don't turn away and break my heart, as has happened so many times.
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