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Say to yourself at the start of the day, I shall meet with meddling, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, and unsociable people. They are subject to all these defects because they have no knowledge of good and bad. But I, who have observed the nature of the good, and seen that it is the right; and of the bad, and seen that it is the wrong; and of the wrongdoer himself, and seen that his nature is akin to my own—not because he is of the same blood and seed, but because he shares as I do in mind and thus in a portion of the divine—I, then, can neither be harmed by these people, nor become angry with one who is akin to me, nor can I hate him, for we have come into being to work together, like feet, hands, eyelids, or the two rows of teeth in our upper and lower jaws. To work against one another is therefore contrary to nature; and to be angry with another person and turn away from him is surely to work against him. (Meditations, 2.1)
originally posted by: Fallingdown
a reply to: IAMALLYETALLIAM
The real culprit in all this hate is the lying manipulative main stream media. They are the puppeteers giving the marching orders to the troops .
originally posted by: Fallingdown
The right wings main focus is to protect what we have. Constitution, religion and implied rights. We generally don’t organize, get loud or go on the offensive.
The left wings main focus is us and the things we stand for. They organize, get loud , go on the offensive over anything and sometimes over nothing.
Every liberal I know stands for the rule of law, God, and the Constitution.
The idea the Republican part is the party of God, the party of the Constitution, bla, bla, bla is patently false
This kind of hyperbolic vitriol is why the country is so divided.
Maybe you would be a happier person if you made the distinction between your own personal identity and public policies the government puts in place.
If public policies implemented by the government are somehow part of your own personal identity such that you would think what you stand for is under attack you have severe psychology problems.
You need to disassociate your ego with what other people are saying so you will not take it as a personal attack.