The last decade and a half have been full of persecution for people who don't agree with you. I have noticed bilateral disrespect for the founding principles of the country.
I keep my opinions to myself. But if you ask I will politely and logically and honestly tell you what and why I believe what I believe. If you ask and don’t like my answer then you have no reason to be offended.
Well, of course! Who is surprised? These days, you can get into so much trouble for what you say. All of these social pressure individuals have created a culture now where people secretly have completely different beliefs than what they are willing to confess to in public and out in the open for fear of social consequences. it was much better before people just said what they thought and everybody just went around doing their own thing. It was much more transparent and much more honest. Wasn’t even that long ago either. Maybe 10 or 15 years ago. Something happened in the middle of the last decade That has put us where we are today.
People are more liberal ( kinder/nicer ) than they let on, especially at work in front of the boss or in front of their loud mouth abusively conservative neighbor
Hoot, there is not any way that these can be accurate in the least, its just about all subjective material. And there is no way to replicate the study to see if it holds up under peer review.
Thanks for the video. I suspect that the biggest issue for this gap is abortion. Publicly, anyone who wants to avoid being kicked out of any Democrat meeting must say that abortion should always be legal regardless of circumstances or the development of the unborn baby. I suspect that most of these same Democrats believe that killing an unborn child beyond a certain point of development should be illegal. On the other side of the aisle, we have a generation of Republican lawmakers who got into office by promising the "pro-life" movement that they thought abortion should always be illegal without exceptions. In private, many of them would not want to prosecute a rape victim or her doctor if she refused to carry the child forced on her by rape. Many more would not want to prosecute a woman or her doctor if the pregnancy threatened her life or even posed a big enough threat to her health. In public, they have to agree that life and therefore legal protection should begin at conception, but privately, many probably believe that the unborn child is not a person until some point in development. We can't come to agreement on these points because the debate has been dominated for fifty years by the extremists on both sides.
