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It's said that everyone has a price. It you were offered your price could you unpartisan yourself for a week? Become indifferent?

What's your price? I don't expect you to go to "the other side". That would be too much to ask. But to disconnect from partisan. As a partisan you always ascribe honorable intentions to those you like and dishonorable intentions to those you don't. You could be wrong. This gives you a breather. A short hiatus. A Sabbatical.  Is it possible to kick the partisan habit or are partisans just too addicted and if they don't get their fixes they'll die trying to get that monkey off their backs?

Posted - January 23, 2018
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  • 46117
    I can't have a price on the issues the Republicans think is fair.  NONE of it.   NONE.

    I cannot sell my soul for money, power, fame, branwashing as bliss, whatever the carrot that is dangled.

    I am playing with lives.  I cannot dictate the rights of myself over the rights of the rest of the world.

    I am a brother/sister/neighbor/friend and fellow human, not a dictator.  
      January 23, 2018 9:54 AM MST
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  • 113301
    Thank you for your thoughtful answer Sharon. You know I seriously toyed with the idea of voting for the Green Party candidate. I didn't like Hillary but I despised doofus don. At the end I felt so strongly against the doofus devil that I didn't want to throw away my vote because when will a Green Party candidate ever win a presidential election? So I caved and voted for Hillary. It didn't matter. I threw my vote away anyway EVEN THOUGH she got the popular vote by almost 3 million! The Evangelicals and so-called Christians who support the donjohn admit he is nothing but trash. They say they didn't vote for for his moral character. They voted for him because of what he promised them. A WALL, JOBS, WHITE NATIONALISM. So that's how they live with themselves.  Doesn't convince me but they seem quite content with it. Wonder how GOD feels about the choice they made? Thank you for your reply and Happy Wednesday! :)
      January 24, 2018 4:22 AM MST
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  • 7943
    I'm pretty sure anyone who talks with me can guess which way I lean, but I'm really independent. I vote purely based on what I feel is right and who shares values closest to mine. Party isn't a deciding factor for me unless I feel equal ties to multiple candidates. 
      January 24, 2018 12:09 AM MST
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  • 113301
    In the 2016 election I almost voted for the Green Party candidate JA. I didn't like Hillary. I despised donjohn. But I didn't want to throw my vote away so I voted for Hillary and I threw my vote away anyway because of the excruciatingly dumb electoral college. She won by almost 3 million votes and it meant diddly. I might as well have voted Green Party. Thank you for your thoughtful reply! :)
      January 24, 2018 4:25 AM MST
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  • 6098
    Well don't know as I could really be considered as a "partisan" because I don't see myself as "blindly devoted" to any one cause, party, or candidate. They all to me have their faults as well as espousing some things I probably don't agree with.  We voted for Trump in 2016 not because we thought he was the greatest or the best or the brightest but just because he was willing to protect the things we most greatly cherished. Individual freedom, personal initiative, personal responsibility, religion, law and order etc.  But I am more conservation -minded than he at least says he is and I happen to think building the so-called wall is silly. Not that I don't want to keep people out but I just think that is not going to do it.  And a lot of it has to do with our fears - fear of totalitarianism, socialism, chaos, impractical social engineering, mob rule, loss of the fruits of our labors, and the creation of an artificial "class" system.  And, more sentimentally, the fear that those who come after us will be prevented by law from enjoying the freedoms that have meant so much to us and given us the happiness that we have been privileged to enjoy.  We don't need the money but we fear loss of what we have worked for and been able to achieve just because some people resent the fact that we have been successful and they perhaps have not - jealousy and envy.  But not that I even think of these things that much or ever did - its only in this context where they are constantly discussed and harped upon despite various explanations of positions .  Sometimes like it is a weird sports game where we are supposed to trash our opponents.  We vote and supports various causes which are dear to us but neither my husband or myself even keeps up with current political events or the "news" or even reads a newspaper because we have other more positive things to do with our lives.  Especially than keeping track of the flamboyant passing parade of politics.  But on this site though I try to avoid it there is just no way I am able to entirely because everyone else seems to be so into it.  And even people adopt site names which are meant to bait politically.  Which I don't even know how to handle except just to post my piece at times and try to avoid the rest. 
      January 24, 2018 9:18 AM MST
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