"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
— Robert Frost
Halloween at 1:30 in the afternoon, The Incomplete Skeptic will be ZOOM-ing with Nate "The Honey Badger" Atkins, who is running in the Minneapolis, Minnesota Mayoral race. https://honeybadgerformayor.com/ To those that attended the Minnesota State Fair, you may have noticed his stand.
The Incomplete Skeptic is about UNmarginalizing Voices that are generally relegated, controlled, or bullied into silence by societal pressures, judgments, or other unwitting prejudices that are often characterized alongside logical fallacies.
My YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPlmJHQqRSCTUOBfOBdv0rQ
I suspect most of us mean well, so my starting point is to trust, as the song goes, that most "people are people, so why should it be, that you and I get along so awfully?" Avoiding the habits of manipulative people is often difficult, but respect (one of the tools of love) for one another is imperative in my world.
To be, as the saying goes, "grown-ass women and men" we have to put on our big girl panties or tighty whities and follow Rodney King's imploring but rhetorical words...you know what those words were, so I won't say it here. Here’s an article I did with Corcoran Press in 2019: https://corcorannews.org/the-incomplete-skeptic-will-the-real-rodney-king-stand-up
Hope springs eternal in the human breast. I hope people give Libertarians a chance someday, but I won't hold my breath thanks to the addictions to fears & party politics and the implanted arguments that marginalize anyone that disagrees with the control-freaks that own everything. I know it's hard to hear other points of view that you disagree with, but suspend your beliefs for a while, tune in, then make up your mind?
photo credit Loïc Fürhoff @imagoiq
I'm hoping for a breath of fresh air in the political realms, no matter what party someone is in, but personally, I usually vote Libertarian. I've been slightly left of center (most of the time), but it wasn’t always so. I’ll leave you with a quote by Covey: "Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply." — Stephen R. Covey (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change).