It is an interesting perspective

The right seems to hate anything and everything that shines with hope, love, care, tenderness, and compassion.

If it shows any of these things, it is immediately mocked, responded to with anger, hate, shaming, and other negative things in a strong arm attempt to beat these positive feelings as far into the ground as they can go.

To me, that is sad. That is a really huge cry that they haven't had any of these emotions or expressions given to them. They have never had kind, genuine expressions of love, hope, tenderness, compassion and other positive expressions given to them.

Their lives have been hard, painful, cutting, cold, alone, and suffering. They have no idea that life doesn't have to be that way. When they see someone who is experiencing the best life has to give them, their instant response is to make that person suffer the way they have suffered.

They don't seem to see that all they have to do is be with these positive people to have their joy of existence wash over them. They impulsively want to dim that light and make it dark instead of making their own life shine.

To me, that is probably the saddest existence to live. To hate love, joy, care, tenderness, compassion simply because one has never received it. To kill it all before giving it the chance to spark in their heart.

How sad and dark their lives are that they remain in that horrible place and refuse to even consider they could live so much better. Half the time, I feel bad for them that they have been so hurt the only option they see is to hurt others more.

I hope they find what they need.

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Ironhand · 51-55, M

I'm neither right nor left or right or left depending on the subject. Cruelty and hate are not simply the domain of those on the right.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@Ironhand it certainly seems as if the right has more of its share than the left.

Ironhand · 51-55, M

@samueltyler2 Really? Because there are plenty examples of it on the left. Take a walk through your social media timeline and see what people were saying about each other during Covid.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@Ironhand don't reopen that. I am a medical scientist, so many had no idea what they were dying, do many died needlessly.

Ironhand · 51-55, M

@samueltyler2 Yes many did. But people were frightened on both sides of the vaccine debate, there wasn't a whole lot of compassion going around..

FoxyQueen · 51-55, F

@Ironhand Yes, but the right were the only ones who were not wearing masks en masse, were insisting that hair salons and barbers be reopened, refusing to social distance, and telling those who followed medical advice that they were "sheep" and other choice words.

The left were asking why the right won't consider other people and the right was literally saying they didn't have to.

We all lived through this. The left was mad that the right was willfully putting people at risk and possibly death. The right was mad the left was saying that they were being willfully ignorant. These are not the same positions.

Ironhand · 51-55, M

@FoxyQueen Really? My buddy lives in Minnesota and the police were used to keep people in their homes. California used the police to arrest people for paddleboarding in the ocean..

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@Ironhand i disagree. Then again I do have the bias of knowing the science, and how science works. We don't always have the information to make the "correct decisions" at the beginning. This was not a left v right situation. But, only those we associate with the right spouted silly, dangerous theories.

Ironhand · 51-55, M

@samueltyler2 I'll grant that but some of the restrictions were absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary.

FoxyQueen · 51-55, F

@Ironhand That just means those who were arrested were violating state laws that were created for public safety. They knew there was a lockdown. They knew what that meant in their state. To go against those laws would be an arrestable offense. That has nothing to do with left or right. That has to do with what each individual state decided to do to enstate the safety of the public. Those people made choices and were given the consequences of their choices. That's how laws work.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@Ironhand you cannot say that, early they were thought necessary based on the data. They probably did help, but should have been released faster.

Ironhand · 51-55, M

@samueltyler2 As a layperson and a libertarian, I just had a hard time reconciling dragging people who were alone off a beach or out of a park.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@Ironhand that I agree, outside there was no reason to isolate. I was very pleased when that relaxation occured.

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FoxyQueen · 51-55, F

@BlueGreenGrey true. Libertarians are just Republicans who don't like committment.

Ironhand · 51-55, M

@BlueGreenGrey Trust me. I hold plenty of grievance with the modern right on a whole slew of issues from Choice to Weed to Palestine to Iran etc..