I could not disagree with you more. "Being reasonable", "understanding", and "compromising" is exactly what has gotten us into this mess we're in now.dale blanker wrote:Thanks for the clarification but if you're thinking about getting into standup comedy, well...The Annoyed Man wrote: Dale, Dale, Dale............this is a joke! Does your lack of a sense of humor indicate you're a Sanders supporter?
[TAM's thoughtful, well written, but somewhat long and possibly bigotted, dissertation - deleted to save space.]
Do you see what you did? You turned a simple joke into one of my patented rants.
I do agree with some of your conclusions about Sanders and socialism. I'm not a Sanders supporter - he makes me cringe when I see him speak. My concern is that your conclusions are absolute, finding little or no redeeming value in another point of view. This perspective is widespread in our dysfunctional Congress.
Let me temper this thread with a bit more reasonable example of Sanders view on government:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/17/politics/ ... socialism/
Anyway, thanks again for the lesson in Sanders but I suspect you enjoyed presenting it as much as we enjoyed seeing it.
The left is NEVER reasonable or understanding and they never compromise. Those things are a mask they wear so they can steal our rights and make us look unreasonable when we don't compromise. The only way to fix this country is for the right to be downright unreasonable and take back what the left has stolen from us. Stolen isn't really the right word though. We gave them everything in an effort to be reasonable.