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In reply to the discussion: Most conservatives are good people. [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)You see a lot of comments like, "How can someone be a good person if they are... anti-women, homophobic, etc..."
That was my opinion as well.
I have met and chatted with folks who, if I mentioned their names you all would recognize as folks from the media who 99.999% of DU absolutely revile.
Somehow, outside of politics they are extremely nice and engaging people. I would not have guessed that to be the case before seeing it with my own eyes over the last 4-5 years.
What that made me believe is that while holding the line of Liberalism and Progressivism on both economic and social fronts and trying to move those forward, we shouldn't stop making level headed and reasonable attempts to convince conservatives where they are wrong. Most of these folks are reachable, eventually. I really believe that.
To use that same number again, 99.999% of these folks think they are doing and believing the right things. They are horribly wrong about that, but they think they are right.