I cannot help thinking how, being quite convinced of the Satanic nature of communism my entire adult life (a conviction that remains in place), I was nominally 'conservative' in my outlook, and thought the 'conservative' party of politics in my country were a lot better than the leftists, who were obviously advancing the mentality and ideology of communism, even if in disguised form
A long time ago, I used to think how the notions that the CIA in the US was doing evil, running guns and drugs, etc, were communist propaganda, designed to destroy the American base, etc. As for the big corporations, well, essentially, not really evil per se, and just a neutral force, some good some not so good.
But evil has used the us vs them dialectic since forever. I find it reasonable that so many leftists are highly critical of the corporations now, the greed culture, exploitative culture, etc. They are right. It doesn't mean that the solutions they imagine are the right ones, or the ideological weaponization of their thought is a good thing, but, they have a point.
And this is true in so many cases.
When we can cross the artificially generated 'divide', to recognize other perspectives and help to incorporate them into a wider, more accurate and more effective vision, we begin to undermine the us vs them dynamic.
I suspect this approach is fundamental to DJT's deal making style. He wants win-wins. Genuinely.
Yeah, I too had the same wool pulled over for my eyes, for far too long. My beliefs mirror yours completely. Funny isn’t it, like we were programmed. I do think Trump is healing the divide, the media is pushing the narrative even harder so that the normies won’t wake up.
I cannot help thinking how, being quite convinced of the Satanic nature of communism my entire adult life (a conviction that remains in place), I was nominally 'conservative' in my outlook, and thought the 'conservative' party of politics in my country were a lot better than the leftists, who were obviously advancing the mentality and ideology of communism, even if in disguised form
A long time ago, I used to think how the notions that the CIA in the US was doing evil, running guns and drugs, etc, were communist propaganda, designed to destroy the American base, etc. As for the big corporations, well, essentially, not really evil per se, and just a neutral force, some good some not so good.
But evil has used the us vs them dialectic since forever. I find it reasonable that so many leftists are highly critical of the corporations now, the greed culture, exploitative culture, etc. They are right. It doesn't mean that the solutions they imagine are the right ones, or the ideological weaponization of their thought is a good thing, but, they have a point.
And this is true in so many cases.
When we can cross the artificially generated 'divide', to recognize other perspectives and help to incorporate them into a wider, more accurate and more effective vision, we begin to undermine the us vs them dynamic.
I suspect this approach is fundamental to DJT's deal making style. He wants win-wins. Genuinely.
Yeah, I too had the same wool pulled over for my eyes, for far too long. My beliefs mirror yours completely. Funny isn’t it, like we were programmed. I do think Trump is healing the divide, the media is pushing the narrative even harder so that the normies won’t wake up.