Quote Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter View Post
Ya know Davey, there are a lot of folks that don't realize you and I have been "butting heads" like this for years.

Good thing for you I don't charge you for the amount of effort I have to put in to getting you to show your more moderate side!

Take it easy there Uncle Bob!!! I've got my reputation to consider!!!!



Unfortunately getting to the "middle ground" is more difficult for the more conservative types. The national narrative is more under the control of the left extreme. I suspect it was much easier for you to find those articles to cut and paste than it would be for someone who wanted to counter them by accessing the same forms of "popular" media. It takes more effort and passion to muster a comprehensive retort to the mass media echo chamber.

So, next time I hear someone described as a "staunch conservative" I could assume they mean bullheaded and unyielding?????

I'll never understand what's wrong with the middle ground... Not just on gun control but on so many, many issues it would seem a bit more comprimising and a lot less name calling and finger pointing would accomplish so much more.... Has the art of negotiation and comprimise completely given way to "You're wrong, I'm right"??? Maybe we could make resolving issues kind of like Olympic judging where they throw out the low score and high score and use the "opinions" in the middle????

In the gun control debate, and for that matter most all political debate, it would seem to me that we put for too much emphasis on the extreme left and the extreme right that the majority of folks who are somewhere in the middle end up with no voice in the proceedings at all.... For this we can thank the media as they strive for sensationalism by only talking up the extremes. I guess Joe Average doesn't make good news copy, does he??? Remember when journalism was who, what, when, where, and why and we were left to make up our own minds on an issue???? Now we are force fed what the media sees as right and wrong and told what to think and what to say.....the worst part is, so many folks seem to buy into the media hype of extremes, and perhaps ignore their own judgement......