UnwittingSenior

Ryan Walters is a fundamentalist and a hypocrite, but I repeat myself.

You don't have to believe in a god to know this is an abomination. You'd think believing in one would make it that much more obvious.

It's a hard line to walk as a moderator. I share the frustration with my party but the over simplification of "all conservatives" sometimes pushes me to step in... Even if I still somewhat agree. I understand the dubvee folks wanting to take a big step back.

I am a data driven person. I blame my more liberal opinions on things like facts. I wish our media talked more in tables and charts than emotions, but it’s frustrating how easy it is to spin numbers to say almost anything. I don’t think there’s an easy fix — just a lot of messy nuance we don’t always have patience for.

The data is out there, but I wish it was more in our faces. It's almost like this is important or something. /s

Some of my family members are more conservative than I am (which isn’t hard, admittedly). They vote based on what they believe benefits them and their families. From their perspective, that's reasonable — why should they vote with others in mind if no one else does?

The idea that "I vote for what I want, you vote for what you want, and we'll get what most people want" sounds democratic, but it's also dangerously simplistic. It assumes everyone has equal power, equal knowledge, and that the system functions perfectly. I believe it's a large factor in the division we're seeing but I can't say which came first.

I wish this article wasn't survey/opinion based. I don't care how people feel about facts. Is it an opinion that the largest tax bracket is smaller? Nope, it's a number.

They believe they're the victors of Jan6 and can rewrite to say it was a peaceful tourist tour.

At this point I bet more civilians have read it than members of congress.

I feel most of the loud MAGA you hear believes a little too strongly in "history is written by the victors" and don't have enough self reflection to realize they can't always be the victors. It's arrogant and disconnected.

Only the comments that break the rules.

Trump did these things in 2016 as well and here we are

Watch your last line there. This community exists because conservative comms already on Lemmy didn't represent me and my beliefs. I also believe Trump is all those things. I see a lot of my party mates drinking the MAGA KoolAid and I am not alone.