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63splitwindow

(2,657 posts) Wed Jul 13, 2016, 04:03 PM Jul 2016

When an otherwise thoroughly reprehensible person sees the light...

and calls Don the Con out as the ridiculously inappropriate candidate to lead this country that he is, how should one react?

You certainly don't want to cause them to go back to supporting Don the Con out of spite. So what does one do?

I ask this because I see it happening now and, hopefully, at an accelerating rate in the future. This is not, IMHO, a purely hypothetical scenario.

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When an otherwise thoroughly reprehensible person sees the light... (Original Post) 63splitwindow Jul 2016 OP

I suggest LWolf Jul 2016 #1

^^^^^THIS TexasProgresive Jul 2016 #3

I think maybe LWolf Jul 2016 #4

That's my take as well TexasProgresive Jul 2016 #5

Stopped clocks are right twice a day Warpy Jul 2016 #2

George Will? J E B Bush? running out fast. any Gabi Hayes Jul 2016 #6

LWolf

(46,179 posts)

1. I suggest

Reply to 63splitwindow (Original post)

Wed Jul 13, 2016, 04:07 PM

Jul 2016

a dip into practicing humility and refraining from judgement...simply supporting any and all small steps anyone, including ourselves, take towards personal growth.

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)

3. ^^^^^THIS

Reply to LWolf (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 13, 2016, 06:01 PM

Jul 2016

If I am proud of anything it is this- When I was younger I held some opinions that are reprehensible to me now. I actually had something pop into my head during this morning's bike ride. Up ahead was a squirrel in the road. It was certainly aware of me as I was of it. It has been said that we humans are self-aware animals and other animals are not.

I don't know if that is true but what my thought was, and this is anecdotal, I have be unself-aware of the motivation for some of my actions and thoughts. As I have grown older maybe I am a little wiser which has given me greater self-awareness. So was I less human and becoming more human and does this apply to people at large?

LWolf

(46,179 posts)

4. I think maybe

Reply to TexasProgresive (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 13, 2016, 07:10 PM

Jul 2016

as we gain years, experience, and that frustrating hindsight, as we begin to realize just how much we DON'T know, it becomes easier to understand others at different points on their own path.

And when our paths cross, we have an opportunity to cooperate and collaborate, or to collide.

I'm glad you didn't collide with the squirrel.

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)

5. That's my take as well

Reply to LWolf (Reply #4)

Wed Jul 13, 2016, 08:14 PM

Jul 2016

Wisdom is when we question the absolutes of our beliefs. Boy I had some doozies.

Warpy

(111,245 posts)

2. Stopped clocks are right twice a day

Reply to 63splitwindow (Original post)

Wed Jul 13, 2016, 04:09 PM

Jul 2016

and even utterly morally and intellectually bankrupt people can have a rare flash of reason. Praise the person's political acumen and move on. Just don't expect anything else to change.

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)

6. George Will? J E B Bush? running out fast. any

Reply to Warpy (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 13, 2016, 08:19 PM

Jul 2016

others come instantly to mind?

they'll all fall in after the neoNixon 68 campaign lurches into full swing

just watch. I said elsewhere, lacking a complete meltdown in Cleveland, or the release of his Trump U deposition (not going to happen that soon), he's going to be leading in most of, if not all, swing states.

please let me be wrong

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