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WILL WE HAVE FUN AGAIN?

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For our children yes. For us maybe no.

We are all products of the sources of information we choose to absorb, and those sources have latched on to what every other species on earth has always known — fear sells.

The basic difference is that no other species would ever think of screaming fire in a theater if there were not an actual fire.

Pick your source for information, doesn’t much matter which one, watch for a bit and see if they do not tell you to be worried about stuff, often with who to blame or even hate. That is what sells. That is what builds audience and cash. We are all simply wired to pay attention, to tune in when someone says, “WATCH OUT!”

Hell, information sources have become so fear mongering that Americans can no longer agree on what is right and what is wrong.

Institutions that could only have been created by a free people for protection and justice, like the Congress, the FBI and Justice Department, are now seen as enemies by millions of Americans. If abandoned, replaced by what, by whom?

A leader of the French revolution famously said, “There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.” In today’s vernacular it might be put: “I cultivated a mob and will follow no matter where they go.”

No, there is not much fun in it, but as in all past American epochs, and I believe with this one, someone in the mob will eventually stop, then someone else, then others and a sense of common commitment to each other will win the day. It is then that sensible leaders both conservative and liberal will be exposed and politically survive, stand on solid common ground, and turn us back to reason.

Richard Kimball

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Old vs New

smoke filled room

                                VS

Big Lie

” I miss seedy old politicians who met in smoke-filled rooms but wouldn’t tell really “BIG LIES.”

Richard Kimball

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YOU-WILL-NEVER-AGREE

 DISAGREEMENTS 

 Few things make one more miserable than that moment in an argument when you realize you’re wrong!   

  For that reason, two words have never been heard in debate, “I am wrong.”

  Once you invest in a point of view, you’re done.  In fact, research has shown that exposing people to contradictory facts only intensified their existing beliefs, making them more inflexible.  You see this reality with participants on January 6th, opposing sides on the Supreme Court’s abortion decision, at your job and in your personal life.

 If you want to be persuasive and impact someone’s misguided beliefs, you’d better start by agreeing with them.  Only that approach can expose any unfrozen receptors and open potential for adjustment.

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AND THE DEMOCRAT MONEY GOES TO ?

guns
Pro-abortion
Election Deniers

        GUNS, PRO-LIFERS, AND ELECTION DENIERS

  Millions being spent by Democrats to support election fraud, pro-life and Uzi-supporting Republican candidates?

                                   W T F !

 Of course, they do it in the hopes of getting unelectables as Republican nominees in the general election, or at least get more viable Republican challengers to burn through their cash defending themselves before facing a Democrat.

 They are having so much fun with voters it gives them the giggles.    You know, the same giggles Trump gets when surrounded by evangelicals he privately says are full of shit, scammers, and hustlers.

 These Democrat 2.0 versions of Trump deserve an equal amount of your derision.  If you do not think so, just imagine if this idea gets legs.  Democrats funding extremist Republicans and Republicans funding extremist Democrats.  That is a world you DO NOT want to see or in the end, live in.  

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    O M G > G O P> W T F

7/12/22

Saw this little bumper sticker:

    O M G >    G O P>    W T F

  Wasn’t sure what it meant until someone steeped in this new language explained.  It was then that I

LOL.

 It made me think of those I had worked with, those Republicans I most respected in politics both in the Congress and state legislature.

 I am not sure why I always got along better with Republican colleagues than my fellow Democratic ones, but it was always so.  None were or ever would have been Trump-pets, and those that have passed on are certainly smoldering in their graves over that despicable, traitorous ass.

 They were simply conservative, came to their judgements by experience and thinking often different than my own, and most notably, always fun, challenging, and educational to talk with. The result: contentions could be, if not resolved, at least adjusted, and advance toward a common goal.

 GTG

 Richard Kimball, Vote Smart

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