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Speaker 1: hunter gambler? Is there any hope of any type of
Speaker 1: common ground between liberals and conservatives these days? Is there
Speaker 1: any hope of finding that center that they always like
Speaker 1: to talk about. When the moment something happens, we divide
Speaker 1: ourselves into one of two camps, or either on this
Speaker 1: side the blue side, or you're on this side, the
Speaker 1: red side. There's no dialogue, there's no debate anymore. And
Speaker 1: that leads us to the question, is there ever going
Speaker 1: to be We've become more divided now than we've ever been.
Speaker 1: If you look at the shooting in Minnesota with the
Speaker 1: Ice agent that killed the protester that possibly was going
Speaker 1: to run them over, before there were any facts, before
Speaker 1: there was any clear video, and again there may still
Speaker 1: not be. People had already picked a side. You either
Speaker 1: believed the Ice agent was acting in self defense. Or
Speaker 1: you believe if it was called blood and murder. There's
Speaker 1: no middle ground anymore. Used to we'd wait until we
Speaker 1: saw more facts before we started to draw the conclusions.
Speaker 1: But we don't do that anymore. You see time and
Speaker 1: time again that the two camps can't wait to pick
Speaker 1: a side. I'm one of those people that still wants
Speaker 1: to err on the side of caution. I still want
Speaker 1: to see more facts. I want to see more evidence
Speaker 1: brought forth so that way I can draw a logical,
Speaker 1: rational conclusion, not just on the incident I just referenced,
Speaker 1: but on many topics of the day. Take the United
Speaker 1: States going and taking the Venezuelan president and bringing him
Speaker 1: to New York to hold him in a trial. Again,
Speaker 1: the moment it happened, you were either this is awesome
Speaker 1: or you were this is the worst thing in the world.
Speaker 1: But you don't want to wait and find out if
Speaker 1: there's actually any facts that might back up your position. No,
Speaker 1: you are decidedly in one of your tribes. You're either
Speaker 1: in the blue tribe or the red tribe. And it's
Speaker 1: not that cut and dry people anymore. We need to
Speaker 1: get back to the days of logic and reason. We
Speaker 1: need to get back to the days where we can
Speaker 1: actually have honest dialogue about things. But when one side
Speaker 1: just screams at you and tells you that you're bigoted
Speaker 1: for believing anything, or that you're horrendous for supporting a murderer,
Speaker 1: it's hard to find common crown with those type of people.
Speaker 1: And I understand and the reason why I want to
Speaker 1: point out that both sides are doing it nowadays. Used
Speaker 1: to it was just the lunatic, insane liberal. But I
Speaker 1: think there are a lot of folks on the Red
Speaker 1: team who've just been pushed too far and are starting
Speaker 1: to fight back more and more. Maybe this is a
Speaker 1: good thing, Maybe it's not. We can't sit down and
Speaker 1: have conversations for goodness sake. After Trump was reelected last year,
Speaker 1: there were actual liberals that were considering and I think
Speaker 1: many of them actually went through with it, boycotting all
Speaker 1: of the holidays. That meant no Thanksgiving with your family,
Speaker 1: no Christmas with your family, because they just couldn't stomach
Speaker 1: sitting in the same room with somebody that voted for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. I'm here to tell you people, life is
Speaker 1: too short for some of this silly, stupid stuff that
Speaker 1: you're going to allow yourself to miss out on meaningful
Speaker 1: family moments. I just don't get it. I don't understand
Speaker 1: the rationale. I don't understand how we got this far.
Speaker 1: Or maybe I do. Maybe it's because the fact that
Speaker 1: when one side is allowed to call you names and
Speaker 1: attack your character and say whatever they want about you,
Speaker 1: it gets old. So I kind of get it, but
Speaker 1: I just don't know that I can ever move away
Speaker 1: from being the logic and reason person. We live in
Speaker 1: a world now where there are people that are honestly
Speaker 1: calling Rand Paul a rhino because he's had disagreements with
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Rand Paul is anything but a rhino. Tomas
Speaker 1: Massey is anything but a rhino. The principal people who
Speaker 1: are fighting for what they believe in. And as I've
Speaker 1: said before, it's okay to disagree with President Trump. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you don't support him, that doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: you don't think he's been doing a good job. But
Speaker 1: you don't have to agree with him on every position.
Speaker 1: But that's how far this divide has become that if
Speaker 1: you ever are seen questioning anything on the red team,
Speaker 1: then you must secretly be a part of the blue team.
Speaker 1: If you're ever questioning the Blue team, you must secretly
Speaker 1: be a part of the Red team. It's one of
Speaker 1: those things that if we don't figure out a way
Speaker 1: to find some commonality once again, Yes, this grand experiment
Speaker 1: will collapse. Maybe that's what has to happen. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: the end game altogether. But I still love this country
Speaker 1: and I want to see it succeed. And that's why
Speaker 1: I encourage people. I say it all the time. If
Speaker 1: you listen to my show, research it. Don't just take
Speaker 1: me as the end all be all fact. If you
Speaker 1: disagree with me, let me know. I'm okay with it.
Speaker 1: I'm a big boy. I don't think that you're going
Speaker 1: to agree with every single position I take. It's just
Speaker 1: not something that I believe is possible. I don't know, people.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just we're getting to that point faster
Speaker 1: and faster to where I think that we are going
Speaker 1: off a cliff and at some point we're not going
Speaker 1: to be able to bounce back from it. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: what's supposed to happen. Maybe that's the best thing, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. This has been morning coffee with the
Speaker 1: Right Side, and I'm your host, Jack Fairchilds and we're
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