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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5017408" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Consider that there&#039;s this subforum on a very active larger forum but most members of the larger forum don&#039;t participate here.&nbsp; Those of us who follow politics closely are hyper aware of what&#039;s going on in the country and have been for some time.&nbsp; A lot of Americans are blissfully unaware.&nbsp; They support their party against those evil so-and-so&#039;s but if you ask them specific questions they are woefully ignorant.&nbsp; A lot of Americans are even less aware than them.&nbsp; They&#039;re caught up in their own lives and could care less about what Washington is doing.&nbsp; I can imagine a lot of people have immigrated, legally or otherwise, with high hopes of a bright future and were surprised if not shocked when they arrived that it&#039;s not the land of milk and honey and a lot of Americans are very dissatisfied with their lot in life.&nbsp; We should be informed and vigilant and a lot are.&nbsp; But let&#039;s not get to the point where everyone&#039;s motives are evil or pure and we must discern the evil amongst us and root them out.&nbsp; At that point we&#039;re becoming a religion.&nbsp; Has already happened to the &quot;woke&quot; on the far Left.&nbsp; Millions watch FOX News every night.&nbsp; Most Americans don&#039;t.&nbsp; Even less watch the liberal outlets.&nbsp; Just because we learned something concerning on FOX last night(with documentation for our liberal haters here)doesn&#039;t mean everybody else did too.&nbsp; Most didn&#039;t and could care less.&nbsp; Sure, they&#039;ll care when policies impact them directly, be shocked that what they were warned about by an avid news junkie is actually happening, and it&#039;ll be too late to affect a change through voting.&nbsp; At that point they&#039;ll realize that when they did glance at the news they were lied to and manipulated by people who they thought represented their side and cared about their best interests.&nbsp; For example CNN and MSNBC lost a huge percentage of their audience when the Mueller report concluded there was no Russian collusion, yet people on those networks repeatedly told their viewers that they had seen proof of collusion by Donald Trump.&nbsp; Not everyone is a rabid leftist, not everyone wants to indoctrinate children.&nbsp; It&#039;s too easy to fall in the trap of hating everyone who votes different than we do because we&#039;re convinced they&#039;ve all become brainwashed and are determined to ruin the country.&nbsp; There are definitely people like AOC who fall into that category, but let&#039;s not participate, for the sake of the country, in being as extreme in our views on the Right as some are on the Left.&nbsp; Most of us aren&#039;t extremists.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 5017408, member: 24302"] Consider that there's this subforum on a very active larger forum but most members of the larger forum don't participate here. Those of us who follow politics closely are hyper aware of what's going on in the country and have been for some time. A lot of Americans are blissfully unaware. They support their party against those evil so-and-so's but if you ask them specific questions they are woefully ignorant. A lot of Americans are even less aware than them. They're caught up in their own lives and could care less about what Washington is doing. I can imagine a lot of people have immigrated, legally or otherwise, with high hopes of a bright future and were surprised if not shocked when they arrived that it's not the land of milk and honey and a lot of Americans are very dissatisfied with their lot in life. We should be informed and vigilant and a lot are. But let's not get to the point where everyone's motives are evil or pure and we must discern the evil amongst us and root them out. At that point we're becoming a religion. Has already happened to the "woke" on the far Left. Millions watch FOX News every night. Most Americans don't. Even less watch the liberal outlets. Just because we learned something concerning on FOX last night(with documentation for our liberal haters here)doesn't mean everybody else did too. Most didn't and could care less. Sure, they'll care when policies impact them directly, be shocked that what they were warned about by an avid news junkie is actually happening, and it'll be too late to affect a change through voting. At that point they'll realize that when they did glance at the news they were lied to and manipulated by people who they thought represented their side and cared about their best interests. For example CNN and MSNBC lost a huge percentage of their audience when the Mueller report concluded there was no Russian collusion, yet people on those networks repeatedly told their viewers that they had seen proof of collusion by Donald Trump. Not everyone is a rabid leftist, not everyone wants to indoctrinate children. It's too easy to fall in the trap of hating everyone who votes different than we do because we're convinced they've all become brainwashed and are determined to ruin the country. There are definitely people like AOC who fall into that category, but let's not participate, for the sake of the country, in being as extreme in our views on the Right as some are on the Left. Most of us aren't extremists. [/QUOTE]

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