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How to tell one’s ideology

If you’re looking for a way to tell if you’re speaking with a conservative or a leftist, here’s an easy exercise. Disagree with them. It doesn’t have to be about anything political. In fact, it’s a better exercise if you don’t. Disagree with them on what they want to do today, or tell them you don’t like a food they really like… or a movie. It could be anything. Just take a stand and disagree with them on something they say. If the person’s a conservative, they’ll want to hear what you have to say. They’ll be interested in…

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The title doesn’t make you an expert

By trusting and putting all of our faith in experts, we’re removing any responsibility we have ourselves to put in the work, do our own research, verify information, and make decisions for ourselves. We’re also taking it on faith that they don’t have any personal motivations guiding their dictates and behaviors. We’re assuming their professions are absolute, that there are no choices to be made, and that they act according to some manual the rest of us cannot access. All one need to is look no further than their own profession. Whether you’re a doctor, a lawyer, a marketer,…

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An illustration of ideologies

This morning, I went for a run around the neighborhood. I was on a really nice trail tucked against the side of a really nice neighborhood. Toward the end of the trail, I had to cross a very busy four-lane road to get to my house. When I got to the light and walk path, I had a few options. I could press the “walk” button and wait for all the lights to change, stop all the cars, and then go, or I could just go on my own. It was 5:30am, and there weren’t many cars on the…

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The greatest tweet of 2020

It’s a bit of an understatement to say a lot has happened in 2020. But with all of the strange twists and unexpected events, the greatest, and perhaps most important tweet of the year was just sent: Or so I thought. I considered this the most important because a very high profile person contracted COVID, survived it, and wrote this key idea: “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.” But then I saw another, more important tweet, a little bit later: On COVID: “Don’t let it dominate you. Don’t be afraid of it. Don’t let…

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Imagine switching ideologies

Imagine if you were are a long-time, hardcore liberal, and you decided to switch to conservative. Or, think about if you were a conservative all your life, and made the decision to become a liberal. What would you have to do? What mental adjustments would you have to make to complete the transformation? If you were a liberal, and you wanted to be conservative, there would be some heavy lifting. First, you’d have to get angry. Very angry. All the time. About everything. You’d have to really start listening to every word anyone said to you and watching for…

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Stealing optimism

There’s a new Joe Biden ad that asks the question: “Why, in this nation, do Black Americans wake up knowing that they could lose their life in the course of just living their life?” Simple. Because Democrats keep telling them that, and they have been telling them that for the past 50 years. It’s completely irresponsible and disgraceful for any Black American to believe that they could be killed on their way to school, going to the grocery store, or doing anything else. But Democrats continue to push this message, working to make blacks feel like they have to…

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What are conservatives so afraid of?

We’ve never done this before at The Bubbler, and I’m not sure we’ll ever do it again, but today’s entry is a repost of an article that originally appeared on the American Greatness website on August 28 called “A Tyranny Perpetual and Universal?” by Michael Anton. It is one of the clearest and best articulations I’ve seen of why conservatives are so concerned about the 2020 election and the ramifications of Trump losing. It’s so important, that we decided to reprint it here. Also, American Greatness recently redesigned their website, and the user experience of this article appears to…

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Black privilege (and other inconsistencies)

If enough white people identify as black people, would there then be black privilege? If so, what do we do about it? As a conservative, I see so many inconsistencies in the popular liberal thinking, that I’m having a hard time keeping up. To be sure, as a human, I’m prone to my own inconsistencies. We’re people. It’s what we do. And I’m sure I’ve got my fair share. But they’re mine, and owned by me. The liberal inconsistencies I’m referring to illustrate a collective, national irrationality that really deserves some acknowledgement or justification. For example: If liberals are…

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Ironically, the black community can set us free

Much of what needed to be said about Joe Biden’s “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black,” has been said. It is exactly the kind of racism the Democrats are always on about because it presumes that simply because of one’s skin color, they would vote for him. But more importantly, it underscores just how much Democrats think all black people are sheep. It calls out, in no uncertain terms, just how much they take the black vote for granted. Any why wouldn’t they? If you’ve read some of…

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You don’t want to vote? Don’t vote.

Many say voting is a critical and vital civic responsibility. I believe that premise is flawed. It’s not voting that’s the civic responsibility, it’s being informed if you intend to vote. That’s the responsibility. In our society, there are those who are tuned into the issues of the day and those who aren’t. There are those who try to follow candidates and issues closely and those who couldn’t tell you who they are or what they stand for. It’s a self-selecting process, and that’s fine. There are those who don’t like politics and have no interest. There’s no shame…

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