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Originally Posted by John_W
After reading all this it came to me that the overwhelming opinion about The Villages is that it is a great place to live, even for those on the right. And furthermore the overwhelming political leaning is moderate or left. I have to believe that the number of happy moderates sets the back drop and tone for the wonderful place The Villages has become.
Therefore I must surmise that if the USA as a whole was left leaning and moderate like The Villages it too would be a wonderful place to live. Not saying it is not a wonderful place, just could be more like TV!
JHW
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WOW that's a real stretch John W.
I don't know who or what wound Tony up but he has been on a roll. I listened to his laments about conservatives philosophy of "I got mine the heck with you" which was a familar refrain from my very Democratic Dad. But if one reads between the lines what you see is an entitlement mentality. This populist chant can get a lot of votes as does the claim of greedy rich people. I mean who would be in support of a billionaire except maybe a synchophant ?
Key words, rich bankers, insurers, corporations politicians......are easy targets and there is no way you can win when defending them. You have the same problem with fringe groups because if you attempt to have an intelliegent dialogue it wouldn't get off the ground because the left will immediately shout you down with name calling. You witnessed it here on this thread.
Unlike many of you my neighbors and I do have poltical discussions not in length but a few minutes here and there.
Frankly I beleieve we need to speak up more because political correctness has hampered our ability to deal effectively with some very serious issues and the minority has become the majority because of it