dagblog - Comments for "How the Rural-Urban Divide Became America’s Political Fault Line"

Yeah, I ran out of potential

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 28 May 2019 16:56:33 +0000

Yeah, I ran out of potential sympathy for Melania about a year ago as well - shallow just no longer seemed to cut it as an excuse for society-destroying moral vacuity.

The question is why do you

rmrd0000 — Tue, 28 May 2019 02:02:30 +0000

In reply to well gosh darn with this

The question is why do you keep repeating that simple math says bipartisanship is the only solution if you know that it is not going to happen because of Republican obstruction?

well gosh darn with this

artappraiser — Mon, 27 May 2019 23:30:44 +0000

In reply to AA, bipartisanship is not

well gosh darn with this comment you just totally convinced me that I was wrong and supporting arguing more and more divisiveness is the solution.And I've got to admit your arguments (of simplistic dogma combined with ignoratio elenchi technique*) on Dagblog are so incredibly successful at convincing others here. Not.

Edit to add: *telling me something I well know and you know I well know, instead of continuing to address that which we talked about and gave our opinion. Why even bother? That's the mystery. Why not just let your statement and my statement stand? Why do you feel it necessary to continually go on to another harangue that is only vaguely related? To lecture me? Or to get more argument? Do you think I will take the lecturing well? Is it intended for some phantom reader out there? Or what?

AA, bipartisanship is not

rmrd0000 — Mon, 27 May 2019 22:41:38 +0000

In reply to I can't even fathom thinking

AA, bipartisanship is not magic. Democrats in Congress have passed bills. Mitch McConnell will not take up the bills in the Senate. This is not both sides do it. We have serious political differences.

Tmac, when it comes to race,

rmrd0000 — Mon, 27 May 2019 22:38:03 +0000

In reply to Who is Us and who is Them.

Tmac, when it comes to race, many people have convinced themselves that we are dealing with isolated incidents. A post about the high black maternal mortality rate can be posted. Another about injustices in the legal system. Another about voter suppression, another about police abuse. They are all considered individual problems. They are not viewed as systemic problems. Because blinders are on, the racial aspect of an urban-rural divide can be completely ignored, because we talk about race “too much”. We degenerate into “both sides do it”, or pity olympics to divert from the structural problems.

PP, you putting up these

artappraiser — Mon, 27 May 2019 21:38:05 +0000

In reply to Jessica, pondering the

PP, you putting up these sassy comparisons made me realize exactly why the Times' choice of picture did not bother me in the least: the message it gives me, and many others, I am sure: this is a very shallow person who mostly cares about her looks, and perhaps similarly mundane things, a Melania type person.

This tweet yelled at me

artappraiser — Mon, 27 May 2019 21:14:18 +0000

In reply to How the Rural-Urban Divide Became America’s Political Fault Line

This tweet yelled at me "there's an elephant in the room that's being ignored." That is: the folks who are passionate about their religion. He's the Senior Demographer @ Pew:

On a daily basis, this 2017 post gets more traffic than anything else I've ever worked onhttps://t.co/9EjYT5x6wN (with @DMcClendonPhD)
— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) May 27, 2019

I have no idea what sort of

ocean-kat — Mon, 27 May 2019 19:35:13 +0000

In reply to Who is Us and who is Them.

I have no idea what sort of point you're trying to make. It sounds like pollyannish bullshit to me. There are several major issues that divide the nation, and the world. Here's another example: I accept that science has enough convincing evidence that the climate is warming, that it is human caused, and that it will have catastrophic effects. I/we are part of a like minded group. We are not everyone. There are those who don't accept the findings of science on climate change. We want to limit the release of CO2 into the atmosphere. They do not. We are part of a group with similar views that are different, often diametrically opposed, to those in the other group. The policy goals each group seeks to pass are in opposition to each other. This is just one of several issues that the American people fracture over.

Everything you've posted in this thread sounds stupid to me. Like some New Age nonsense. Or perhaps you just never learned how to properly understand and use pronouns.

Makes absolutely no sense.

rmrd0000 — Mon, 27 May 2019 18:45:38 +0000

In reply to Who is Us and who is Them.

Makes absolutely no sense. There are people willing to lock children seeking asylum in cages. There are people willing to ignore Russian hacking. There are others taking steps to address these things. We are not the same. The rural-urban divide involves race. If you can’t see that, you aren’t equipped to deal with the problem. You are simply avoiding the issue because it makes you, personally, uncomfortable.

If a person feels that abortion is murder, rape and incest are not exceptions for an abortion. You cannot appease that person. That person ‘s moral code is simply different than your code. It is a line in the sand for them.

On a larger scale, the argument parallels Trump’s there were “good people” on both sides.

Jessica, pondering the

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 27 May 2019 18:20:23 +0000

In reply to Twitter's a flutter today

Jessica, pondering the existential question of whether she should sell weed to sixth graders. pic.twitter.com/ppTB5m5oUU
— Sara Danner Dukic (@saradannerdukic) May 26, 2019