Replies to post #14560 on Your Economy OT - Conspiracy, Politics, Religion, (YE2OT)

[Ayock]

The big picture of course is "safer"...CJP

It only takes one bullet from one gun in one hand on one bad guy to destroy one victim's life...and this goes either way.

Hide the one in a group (in this case of 6) and explaining the behavior of the other 5 becomes the new discussion...nice way to dilute the responsibility and change the subject.

And in this case, the other 5 are complicient in their NOT doing their job of protecting the people...IF in fact that's how it went down.

[Ayock]

Even the Big Picture concept can be flawed...

if YOUR big picture doesn't match someone else's Big Picture.

Imagine two people charged with putting together a single jigsaw puzzle...each one of them gets a different box top picture to use as the final picture goal...spread the pieces, start the project and then stand back and watch the sparks fly as each defends their Big Picture scene as THE REAL PICTURE of reality.

Think Globally, act Locally...and first - get on the same sheet of music.

Adding a political spin to it...

...Minimum wage is another issue you see this with. Republicans constantly paint it as a “job killer” (it’s not) while also rallying against the millions of people who are on government assistance. Funny thing though, a good portion of the Americans who are on government assistance have jobs. If we made sure that no American working full-time had to rely on government programs just to survive, instantly we would save our country hundreds of billions of dollars over the years. Not only that, but when Americans have more money, they have more to spend. And what’s the biggest driver of economic growth? Consumer spending. More consumer spending means higher profits and higher demand, which means - more jobs. But once again, when it comes to Republicans and explaining job creation, anything outside of “tax cuts create jobs” is often too complex for many of them to understand.

The same goes for war. When it comes to ISIS, Republicans just want to send in troops and “crush the terrorists.” They’ve hammered President Obama relentlessly about how he’s handled the entire situation. See, to many of them, they just want to go in guns blazing because that’s what sounds good. But as we’ve learned by our previous war in Iraq, going into these situations haphazardly without a plan leads to absolute chaos. Remember, the existence of the ISIS we see today is a direct result of Bush’s Iraq War. When it comes right down to it, I really do believe a huge part about why so many of the non-racist Republicans are against President Obama is because many of them are simply unable to grasp his “big picture” thinking that drives a lot of his policies. That requires intelligence and far too many conservative would rather just be told what to think by Fox News. They want their policies to be so simplified and catchy that they fit on bumper stickers.

It’s like I’ve often said, Democrats are trying to use science, math, reality, history and education to reason with people who deny science, don’t trust math, create their own reality, distort history and often devalue quality education. And that’s a big reason why we’re not getting anywhere in this country.

Read more at: www.forwardprogressives.com/simple-truth-president-obama-intelligent-republicans-understand/

[arizona1]

you tend to focus on a microview of reality while I look at the big picture.

The problem with you Chris, is you can't seem to stay on topic. We weren't discussing "the big picture". We were discussing the WHITE psychotic killer cop of Freddie Gray....not the other five who were also involved. We weren't discussing the inherent problems of inner cities like Baltimore... we were discussing the killer cop named Brian Rice.

You can play your word games and bait-and-switch all you want but I won't participate. Find someone else to annoy.