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Appreciating Dead Posey today.
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I deleted an account where people discuss political ideas. I get too frustrated because I always try to argue logically from principles and my logic and principles
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don't work for anybody but me. For example, I believe all votes should be based on principle, not personal gain. Yet everybody thinks politicians need to appeal to
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voters economic concerns which amounts to buying and selling votes. I can't find a rational alternate view of voting on personal financial relief. A common complaint
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is that lower income voters go against their own self interest, but what they vote for is how they express their interest. Lots of people believe in the American
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dream: work hard enough, get rich. The contrapositive is that if someone doesn't get rich, they didn't work hard enough - and they're okay with the fact this applies
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to themselves. They vote for what they think is right - the possibility of achieving the American dream. Another issue is that America is strongly divided - people
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who insist the law protect fertilized eggs as persons simply cannot live alongside those who don't, and want the freedom to terminate an early pregnancy. Those who
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want a social safety net cannot live alongside those who reject it on principle. My attempts at a logical analysis of such issues fall flat - simple rejection, not
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rational contradiction. That, I've read, is to be expected. But that leaves me with nothing to contribute to political discourse. At my age and with my health
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conditions, there isn't much left. Maybe I can finish making some puzzles?