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You're a towel!
As I said, I really don't get you…
That is too bad, because you would live in a much more beautiful, kind, gentle, caring, peaceful, and loving world if you “got me.”
What is my “political and social lean”? I don’t have a political lean. I call them as I see them. I judge a person based on their character. Are they honest? Are they kind? Are they truthful? If they have made mistakes in their past (as every human has) how did they correct that and make themselves a better person? Or do they keep making the same mistakes over and over and keep hanging around bad influences? So I don’t care what label you want to call yourself – Republican, Democratic, Green Party, Christian, Atheist, etc. I will like you if you are a good person, not by the label you put on yourself.
I am also an “awake” person – I am not a “sheeple.” I am smart enough and bright enough to know that there are no parties in American politics – they are all the same. They label themselves Dem or Repub just to keep the illusion going for the sheeple, so that the sheeple think they have choices, but in actuality it is the same small group of The Powers That Be who are running the show, and what they want they will get, no matter who they put in office. Don’t believe me? Look into the CFR and Bilderberg and Bohemian Grove.
As far as “social lean,” I am an independent, critical, and logical thinker. I read between the lines. I don’t blindly follow. And I definitely do not let society or the MSM or advertisers or PR machines tell me what to think, how to be, what is right, what is wrong, etc. I follow my own heart and my own instinct. I was raised to treat all living beings with respect and dignity, and to be honest and sincere and truthful. I was raised Catholic but I have followed the Advaita philosophy of Vedanta, which is a philosophy of Hinduism, for years. I also study the beliefs of many Indigenous Native cultures. I try to follow the Bushido (Way of the Warrior), which are Samurai Ethics, and I strive to follow the Noble Eightfold Path: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration.
In other words, I am not one of those that you can neatly label and put into a box. I don’t live in the world you and Diable4 and many of the other Salon.com posters live in. My mind is too wide and too awake to live in such a narrowly defined world. If you are a jerk then you are a jerk. And it does not matter to me if the jerk is gay, bi, straight, Black, White, Asian, Jewish, Christian, pink, gold, X, Y, or Z. A jerk is a jerk and I will call them on it. And if you chose to label me as “anti-X” because that jerk happens to be an X, then that is your problem. And if you chose to say I “hate” all X’s because the jerk in question happens to be an X, then that is your problem. You chose to continue to live in a small world. I have woken up. Too bad you haven’t.