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I have over the past several weeks been pontificating about my belief that we are now more peaceful and civilized than we ever have been.
Not many people agree with me. I find it distressing that so may people refuse to believe in peace. I understand that there are way too many examples of the opposite of peace in the news today. We certainly have not yet achieved world peace. There is still hatred.
I was just reading a comments thread on Youtube. Comments threads are most definitely not the place to look when seeking peace. But the hatred there sometimes surprises me. Why is it that our conservative friends hate us liberals so much?
What I see liberals offering up to conservatives is condescension and pity. Coming back from the conservatives . . . hate, definitely hate.
I assume it is because their media sources preach fear of liberals on a constant basis. Liberals are trying to take America (where I don’t know but supposedly we are taking it away from conservatives).
When I read conservative rants I keep reading over and over screeds that claim liberals are something that I an not. I consider myself very liberal. I don’t want to take guns away from law abiding citizens. I don’t want to destroy the economy. I love freedom. I love America.
I do believe it is an absurd notion that the richest nation in the world can’t educate and care for our own people. I further believe that most people are honest and hard working and given the opportunity will contribute to society.
If you are a conservative, understand this . . . liberals are not your enemy. We want the same things you do, peace and security. We want the opportunity to succeed. We want clean air and water. We don’t want to pay any more taxes than necessary, but we do understand the civilization isn’t free and paying taxes is every American’s patriotic duty.
If you are a liberal, have some compassion for our conservative friends. They have run society for a very long time and are being asked to share control of our world with people they once considered marginal. We have to understand that when our conservative friends see that people of color, gay people and people fighting to protect the environment want many of the same things they want, that we want prosperity for all, that we want peace and stability, they will come around, eventually.
All sides have to give up hate and distrust of the “other”.
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