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You can't reason with people who are wholeheartedly reactionary about their politics because by definition they are on the defensive politically. Gay marriage isn't just something the right doesn't like, it's something that they have convinced themselves is a real threat to their core values and way of life in order to justify being so strongly against it. So when you reach across the aisle to try to compromise with them you're saying "Hey, how about instead of burning down every church in America and forcing your kids to be gay like we really want, we just burn down half the churches and just make all the teachers in schools gay?" That's what they hear, anyway. Whatever you were trying to do in the first place was an attack against them, and making it a slightly less drastic attack is not going to feel any better. You really can't talk about the Right as if all of their beliefs are actually founded on long-standing principles, or that there is consistent reasoning behind each political tactic they use. It's just them trying to keep everything the way they like it and with them on top of the hierarchy, which is reasonable I suppose, but not something you can really convince them not to work towards. Mineaiki fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Dec 9, 2014 |
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