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Old 03-23-2017, 07:35 PM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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I am not saying liberals are stupid. I believe their very kind but their kindness gets taken advantage of.
Todd Horwitz, said:

Today’s liberals are not liberal at all. They are elitists, communists, and socialists that believe that they should dictate how people live. The true liberals are conservatives that try to restore the country to the way the founding fathers envisioned it.

Adding that “current progressives want to provide basics for individuals to keep them in power, but are not interested in individual rights.”

Maybe a bit extreme. I know several TRUE liberals, and they are really good people. Trust me, they are not dumb at all. They are certainly not angry. Rest of them? well, no comments.
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Old 03-23-2017, 07:44 PM
 
Location: near bears but at least no snakes
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I left London three days ago. Every time I've been there I've been with really nice, polite people. People who will go out of their way to help you. The last two times, we met up with dh's old school friend and went out to a nice old pub for dinner. It was wonderful.

We talked with his London friends about politics a little bit and they are appalled by Trump. But we talked with people all over England and they were all appalled by Trump. Maybe they are more liberal than people in this country but most were happy and more relaxed than most people I meet over here. They're not worried about going bankrupt because of medical bills, for one thing.

One London friend asked me if I went private to have my cataract surgery--
how to explain to them that we barely even HAVE health insurance over here. We can't "go private" (they mean paying a little bit extra to go above and beyond the free National Health Service.) Rich or poor, we have to pay for everything health related out of pocket. We don't have the choice of using the single payer system or paying a little bit and getting a Cadillac plan.

I don't really understand what you're getting at but maybe you dislike liberals? Is that it? Maybe you are brainwashed? You think we love illegals? You think we love Muslims over Americans? You heard something stupid on your talk radio program? You seem to be baiting us with your post.
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Old 03-23-2017, 08:01 PM
 
Location: Pacific NW
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The West African cab driver who drove my daughter and me to Gatwick told us he would never go to the United States and that he told his relatives who went to live in New York that they are crazy.

Everyone in the US carries a gun and there are gang wars all the time.
So he knows as much as the average US liberal.
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Old 03-23-2017, 08:03 PM
 
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I don't really understand what you're getting at but maybe you dislike liberals? Is that it? Maybe you are brainwashed? You think we love illegals? You think we love Muslims over Americans? You heard something stupid on your talk radio program? You seem to be baiting us with your post.
I have never been to Scotland, Germany, London and France or Yemen. I have friends from there we rarely get into politics. But my friends are very thoughtful. My question is what makes them so oblivious to not see what's happening to their homeland? Islam is spreading.
What choice did we have between Hillary and Trump?
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Old 03-23-2017, 08:10 PM
 
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As mark twain said "travel is fatal to prejudice" .. I have never been there and only report what I've read or heard, hence "think"
Hence why you know nothing about London.
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Old 03-23-2017, 08:21 PM
 
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I have never been to Scotland, Germany, London and France or Yemen. I have friends from there we rarely get into politics. But my friends are very thoughtful. My question is what makes them so oblivious to not see what's happening to their homeland? Islam is spreading.
What choice did we have between Hillary and Trump?
Where are you from? I can read that English is not your first language. You're better than me because I cannot communicate in another language as well as you can in English.
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Old 03-23-2017, 08:43 PM
 
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Where are you from? I can read that English is not your first language. You're better than me because I cannot communicate in another language as well as you can in English.
Croatia
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Old 03-23-2017, 08:50 PM
 
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Went to lunch today with a few friends, the new girl from our class joined us. She is going back home to London for the summer because of her job. She excited about seeing her family. I asked her does she like it here better London she said yes and she told us it's because their is more crime there and the gangs control the streets and so i interjected saying " you mean bad politicians?" She thought about that and agreed.

She was telling us the government shouldn't just take 1 person and stick in a category for everybody.

I understand when liberals say that. It's like saying fat people are rude. Well not all fat people are rude. But when it comes to not defeating the enemy you just put blinders on over time 10 years from now you change the demographic.

I have another friend from France says she just can't go back to France it's completely different now.
Do you know who UKIP is?
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Old 03-23-2017, 08:56 PM
 
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Do you know who UKIP is?
populist political party in the U k
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Old 03-23-2017, 09:21 PM
 
Location: near bears but at least no snakes
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populist political party in the U k
and generally despised...extremely right wing.
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