Every one us should see this as disgusting. Democrats won't. They are too hateful, spiteful and vindictive. Those are their values.
https://tomklingenstein.com/a-response-to-my-liberal-neighbor/
I recently received this email from a neighbor:
Curiously, my neighbor thinks I do not know what my former friends feel about me. How could I possibly not know? I regularly run across people who hate Trump as much as my former friends do. Either my neighbor doesn’t know that he lives in a bubble, or he doesn’t know that I do not. He can easily avoid conservative news. I, on the other hand, cannot avoid his sources of news because they saturate the air I breathe. I could not avoid them even if I tried. He can avoid conservatives, or turn conservative friends like me into erstwhile friends.
He says there is a difference between us in “fundamental values.” He doesn’t define “fundamental values,” but it sounds as if he is saying he has better values than I have, or even that he is a good person, and I am not. Liberals have always said this of conservatives. For the record, I doubt my values really are different from his, and his values are, by and large, good — although there is one value he might work on: humility.
He is not accusing me of a good-faith error, because my error, in his view, can only have been made on purpose, the consequence not of ignorance but of malevolence. It seems impossible for him to entertain the possibility that the error is his — a good-faith error perhaps, but an error all the same. He is as imprisoned in his liberal bubble as was the film critic Pauline Kael, who was reported to have said about the 1972 election, “I don’t know how Richard Nixon could have won. I don’t know anybody who voted for him.”
https://tomklingenstein.com/a-response-to-my-liberal-neighbor/
I recently received this email from a neighbor:
This neighbor’s children grew up with mine. We were once good friends. We socialized and traveled together. No more. But we are civil toward each other. I don’t remember ever talking with him much about politics, but I know him to be center- left — certainly no radical, let alone a revolutionary.
Curiously, my neighbor thinks I do not know what my former friends feel about me. How could I possibly not know? I regularly run across people who hate Trump as much as my former friends do. Either my neighbor doesn’t know that he lives in a bubble, or he doesn’t know that I do not. He can easily avoid conservative news. I, on the other hand, cannot avoid his sources of news because they saturate the air I breathe. I could not avoid them even if I tried. He can avoid conservatives, or turn conservative friends like me into erstwhile friends.
He says there is a difference between us in “fundamental values.” He doesn’t define “fundamental values,” but it sounds as if he is saying he has better values than I have, or even that he is a good person, and I am not. Liberals have always said this of conservatives. For the record, I doubt my values really are different from his, and his values are, by and large, good — although there is one value he might work on: humility.
He is not accusing me of a good-faith error, because my error, in his view, can only have been made on purpose, the consequence not of ignorance but of malevolence. It seems impossible for him to entertain the possibility that the error is his — a good-faith error perhaps, but an error all the same. He is as imprisoned in his liberal bubble as was the film critic Pauline Kael, who was reported to have said about the 1972 election, “I don’t know how Richard Nixon could have won. I don’t know anybody who voted for him.”
