….When your immediate response is to deny what someone else is saying…if it doesn’t match your view.
…When you do the “but the Repub/but the Demo!!” instead of asking for more info from the speaker. Instead of making sure you have let them actually express their thought, rather than hearing a trigger word or two and being triggered into your immediate denial.
…When you have no intellectual curiosity about what the other person has said, not even the “I don’t see how you could think that…where did you get that?” kind.
…When you rip out 1, 10, 2 dozen, need a calculator criticisms/mockings of “them” without one acknowledgement of your side’s weakness/problem/failing.
As one who is comfortable critiquing/criticizing politicians, government officials, and in these days the media, I find it frustratingly lonely not to be able to talk to people. Unless they think exactly like I do.
And…to be honest…I’m boring enough on my own. I don’t need to talk to someone who thinks just like I do.
What kind of people only want to hear what they already believe? Because, it is belief. It is faith of a sort. Faith that cannot be questioned.
Good thing we have Freedom of Religion.
Son of Liberty 2020
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