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Friendly Brilliant's avatar

When I was a kid, my dad's family had big family gatherings. M ydad''s immediate family came from a Democratic background but with all the marriages and cousins, there were different points of view. I didn't get involved in the discussions as I was really young but they would be sitting there casutally talking and then loudly shouting theri viewpoints to try to convince each other. My cousin Sylvia once said that when she first saw that, she thought fights were going to break out, but a minute later, the disussion would change and it was as if they were best friends as they all loved each other. The disagreements were never personal. I saw that in my church, where afterwards people would get together for arguments about different interpretations of various scriptures but they all loved each other too. Those disagreements were never got personal either. So I always thought that differences of opinion were a good thing as they allowed an outlet for opinions without creating hate as everyone always left both the family discussions and the after-church discussions totally supportive of and caring about each other. Watching people in recent times getting into hate over simple differences in opinons aways seems so foreign to me and that's the direction the country, particularly the left, is going. . If everyone always agreed with everyone all the time, nobody would ever learn anything.

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Marie Long's avatar

Chase is a bit repetitive but certainly right on the mark. thanks, Cindy. For many many years I've been telling friends and family to turn off the television, mostly unsuccessfully.. I don't know what it is that keeps people attached to propaganda and their own destruction....

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