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Originally posted by LessinSF
Why can't someone dislike both? I do.
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I think I might be more critical of Bush but for the blatant prejudice and close mindedness of the anti-Bush crowd, which makes me defensive. I have had educated people who claim to be open minded, diverse and anti-bias come into my home with no actual knowledge of my politics and say to me, as they ate my food and drank my wine, "I could never socialise with someone who voted for Bush, they are just awful people". Literally. As partisan as people may think I am, the supermajority of people I associate with left of Hillary Clinton and some of them are open socialists. As partisan as I am, I would never say something so ignorant or prejudiced and I would never teach my kids blind hatred of another group of people because they voted for the opposite mainstream party. Yet I see, in person,
liberals do it on a daily basis. Literally. And before someone cites the religious right as exhibiting that same behaviour, I don't consider the religious right generally to be educated open minded people, so I expect close minded parochial ignorance out of them.
