[noonereal]

Originally Posted by Charles

To start with, we won't get very far by referring to one another as lunatics.

You are correct but...

And while I can't speak for every buck toothed knuckle dragger here in fly over country (actually, I'm not speaking for any of them), we are pro science and anything but antisocial.

I agree the heartland is anything but antisocial but the bible belt is indeed anti science (in general terms only of course). How do you explain the widespread belief in religion and refusal to accept such simple knowledge as global warming?

Now we are fiscally conservative.

One big plus for many parts of the south.

As I've said before, if green energy becomes affordable and reliable, I'll be the greenest sumbitch on the planet. And so will all of my hillbilly buddies

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but so will everybody. The key here is to have government invest in it so we both will.

And as far as "social issues", what kind of people do you think we are? We want to see everyone advance their position in life as much as anyone else.

I see people who try to compel other people to "obey" the rules of "their" religion as if it were "divine."

We all want the same thing, we simply disagree on the path to take us from here to there.

Yes and no.

Personally, I welcome a rational discussion. But, on a national level, we don't have a rational discussion...we have soundbites.

The average hard working american only has time for sound bites, that is the sad part.

We're too busy justifying our own arguments, and rooting for the home team, to realize that we are no different that our opponents

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Sort of. The folks that do this are the fringe of both sides however.

If we can ever kick all of that bullshit aside, perhaps there is hope.

Yeah the glass can be half full tonight.