I am hoping I have landed at a place where the minds are open, actually opened not just stated as such.
You know, so when someone,like me, a libertarian (note no capital "L") who tries his best to stay independent in socio-political thought, can come and say something like:
"Overall, I don't like Trump, but I do think he has done a few good things, like the First Step act and not bombing foreign nations as a first choice as well as getting us disengaged from the middle east"
but then, without hesitation I am accused of this statement being some kind of code like "I am really a MAGA hat wearing trumpster and i am here to disrupt your conversation"
My questions then never get answered and the whole "Shout down, shut down" method goes into effect on anything I post.
the ugly head of Binary Bias has definitely set its claws into the current socio-political climate more then ever.
Sad
I see what is going on now ,not the impeachment but the way that either side's supporters are becoming so verbally abusive to one another and so retracted from discussion and entrenched in their political foxholes as a result of something that started at least 30 yrs ago.
When people started to more and more use personal attacks and gotcha politics,when dems and gop stopped having the exchange of ideas in the search for compromise discarded in favor of finding ways to discredit a person instead of finding ways to discredit the policies they were forwarding.
So, hopefully, I can find some conversation here?
I am a 53 yr old man. I am a 20 yr retiree of the US Army. After retirement, I completed a couple of under grad degrees and a master's all in time to have my service connected injuries take me out of the workforce (grrrrrr!!)
So now, my wife and I work on the gardens and fruit trees we have, I have a large koi pond I built myself and we recently adopted our granddaughter.
"Jobs" of whole different sort
I normally spend my on-line time at a sci fi forum where we do talk about many more things then sci fi, but we have now refrained from politics because it has threatened to rip apart what we have there.
So, thats why I have been looking for other places to discuss things I think are more important then the impeachment of one person who only temporarily holds one office
things related to the ordeal-- for example- "why are we and the EU giving weapons to Ukraine when,as of 2018, it is the 11th largest exporter of weapons?"(is there a thread for that?)
thanks for having me