Conservative Catch-All

This will probably go nowhere but can this one thread be a place for conservatives to discuss among each other without all this fighting? I looked over the Trump catch all thread and it appears that conservatives are staying out of it.

I don't feel like I fit into either category of liberal or conservative, but there have been a few things I thought about posting here that pertains to how scrubologist started this thread.

If you don't like what is said here and know it will be derail the thread, will you please start a new political thread on that subject? I'd like to discuss more politics but I'm so tired of things going off track and getting personal. This pertains to BOTH sides.

Please just leave this one thread alone.

I know, I know I'm not the thread police, but please let the conservatives have this one place to be able to talk to each other.

I jumped on here and started with the back - page 28.

I read the three links that were posted without explanation, but with the implication that Fox was way out of step with the other two.  I didn't find that at all, so it's just more Fox-bashing.


Then, it's David Hogg vs Laura Ingraham and how the same kid who should not be criticized because of his age or perspective does not need to accept an apology from anyone for recounting his words and disagreeing with them. (First I've heard of this, so this is only what I read at the top of this page.)


I'm done. Normally, I'd try to go back a page and read some more, but what's the point? So I can find why there was this need to shame Fox? Or read more about David Hogg?

Thanks, but no thanks. There's the entire rest of the board as well as other social media for that.


<waving to @scrubologist>

I know that I, for one, have been trying to avoid this thread.  However, I do check in occasionally  because I would like to see what the conservatives think about some of the big issues in this country and they are not weighing in on them anywhere else.  But, it seems that the only thing really being discussed is Hillary and if she was offensive or not.  

But there was an explanation? A variety of sources were provided so people could read different perspectives and make up their own mind. It's a real shame if acknowledging that there are different ways to view an issue is now seen as 'bashing' one of them (because the latter certainly wasn't explicit and I find it hard to see where it could be implicit either).  

Mexico stops caravan link

No, on this page there was not an explanation, as I said. I read all three articles and I didn't see that big a difference between any of them.

So, without going back to see what the need was for the links, the obvious conclusion is that it's more of the same. More of the same here is Fox bashing.

Nothing more than the same old same old. If I wanted that, I could read any other thread here.

FWIW - they were all three interesting articles. I expected there to be a big difference between them. Not so much.

Don't like my opinion about this page on this thread? <shrug>  I don't really care. I opened this page of this thread hoping for something different from what I found. 

I'd really rather not put people on ignore. I do enjoy some of their posts in the non political threads. I'll just have to see who is posting (in this thread) before bothering to read the actual post.

I agree and I have several on ignore. But that means that I can't enjoy their other threads, which sucks. But when it was 5-6 different threads every day it was overwhelming the board and making me not enjoy coming here like I used to. So I put them on ignore and now I don't have to deal with the daily bashing of someone I didn't even vote for! It's just more enjoyable without all that constant negativity. 

Well, I have put several on ignore and quite frankly, its been nice. Sure, I would love to hear their voice on non-political threads, but they've insisted on continuing here. So ignore it is.

FWIW, I think this thread is a prime example as to why Trump won and no one saw it coming. Conservatives are out there telling people how they see things and no one wants to listen. We are told 9 different ways how we are wrong, ignorant and stupid. I have never changed anyone's mind by treating them rudely, arguing and being a bully. I suspect the same is true for others.

mymindisoverdose.tumblr.com/post/37505896858Apparently I cannot post a gif, but standing ovation for you mom.

Thanks. I went through about 11 pages of the Trump thread before I decided to post. I know there were 32. I tried to be sure.

And see? What you describe is me. Well, except I am not Mexican. I am pretty liberal socially & fall fiscally conservative (in life and in politics). But I have found the conservatives to be more accepting of me and my leanings that than of non-conservatives. I just frustrates me to no end that I have to be all or nothing on the liberal side to be have a voice that is worth listening to. It doesn't have to be that way and it shouldn't be that way. I think 99% of the time, people who want to listen and learn can! But when some enter into conversations with the mentality that they are right, the other is not only wrong, but stupid, well, it just isn't conducive to learning.

I have learned from some of the more liberal peas - but my mouth wasn't running off, and I wanted to learn when they were coming from. And I did end up changing my mind - and ended up on the liberal side of this particular issue. But I wasn't hell bent on being right. Some of my favorite Peas are very liberal - but they are able to have a civil conversation and they recognize that at the end of the day, we are in this together and the answer probably won't be liberal or conservative. But one that is a compromise.

Ok that will be enough out of you. (just kidding)