You are telling me a weed is the same as a Sequoia. Pardon me if I cannot comprehend your viewpoint.
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Trump:
A very nice simile and post IMO, and I wholly agree with your logic. That being said, I have reached a point where I also believe that the greater truth is that there is some very real reason that people who disagree with this view are reluctant to assent to what seems obvious to us.
My concern now is to try to suss that deeper reasoning out for my own benefit and that of the cause of conservatism. This is in order to hopefully prevent the same thing from happening again. I've noticed that continuing to pursue discussion of it seems only to arouse resentment, not understanding. So I have given up trying to act as an advocate for my own POV.
To be frank, I think there is some evidence that the actual reasons some of our friends (and I do believe to the core of my being that they are friends) disagree has to do with something outside their conscious scope of realization. That is not to say that I believe that they are dense, or insane or have any other major defect, but only that they are human.
IOW, resistance of this magnitude often has roots in something legitimately worth addressing. One of the problems with that is the reason may vary from person to person. The unifying theme that seems to reoccur in virtually all cases is the belief that they and their values have in some significant way been disrespected, ignored or dismissed.
The failure to ameliorate this situation effectively enough to recover many voters, is of the Trump campaign and the GOP directors. And it is their failure, since who else would be responsible!?! 'Not a failure of morality so much as messaging, since the net result of ignoring it was to alienate a significant (but thankfully not a decisive) percentage of the self-described conservative electorate.
Trying to get others to come around to my (our) POV seems to me to be pursuing a Pyrrhic Victory so I won't do it any more.
I can live with disagreement on this issue. What I can't live with is to enable further schism in the conservative cause by allowing my own personal sense of frustration in my failure to convince others, to affect the conservative movement.
Maybe after some long pondering I will come back to it, but for now, it's going to the warehouse for storage so that I can move on to other things with more potential for positive return on investment. This boy is movin' on with the tumblin' tumble weeds ! Who will come with me?