Do you ever call-out your own side?

I know that the idea of having a 'side' is sometimes nebulous but we all have people here who we agree with on political issues in many ways though not completely. We all have identity and confirmation bias and its hard sometimes to be objective. Well, it's impossible to be truly objective but I think its good to try.

On here I have not really noticed right-wing people do that. I saw a post yesterday which called the terrorist act in Christchurch an act of self-defence. It got a heart and no push-back from anyone. I also remember a post telling a black man to stay on the plantation and it got four hearts and again no Conservative pushback. I haven't seen any far-gone things from the left which passes without being challenged but maybe that is my own confirmation bias and perhaps there are examples.

We live in partisan times and the temptation is to be tribal but I think we lose a lot if we can't call out people whom we ideologically agree with for overstepping the mark. It's good to think for yourselves too, or you might end up in a political movement which supports violence against Muslims or open racism. I don't think most Conservatives do agree with these things but I think people should say so.

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SatanBurger · 36-40, F

I could find another criticism of my left counterparts like I don't hear them sticking up for the case of grass fed farming and would like to hear more so I feel more confident in them. Conservatives are mostly running on platforms for urban farming areas but I dislike most of their other positions, this leaves me feeling at odds occasionally (not all the time.) I would prefer to get rid of industrialized vegetable mono cropping which is REALLY bad for our soil and industrialized meat farming to go back to the good old days of getting farm fresh dairy milk, grass fed meat and localized grown veggies but also getting rid of corn and soy being used for high fructose corn syrup.

Over here, in the supermarkets we mainly get our veggies from countries who have known child slave labor practices and I feel icky trying to purchase it. I really look at tomatoes with a deep suspicion these days, I'm not even kidding, I seriously want no part in exploitation.

I'm not sure if any Democrats have spoken about local farming but it bothers me I don't hear very much from them on that subject, I've heard it's because they try to focus in the cities and I think that's not very fair.