I feel somewhat the same way and was absolutely shocked that there are conservatives on this site. I didn't think such an animal existed.

@Kojaksmom Those are very confused people on several different levels. Kinda like religious people who change religions every few years in search of something that doesn't exist.

I wish I could LOVE this comment instead of just like it!!! Lol

If worse comes to worse, I could possibly handle a FWB arrangement with a conservative as long as the emphasis is on the "B". Lol

This is not about having someone to hate, FB, it's about identifying our ethical allies!

@SACatWalker C'mon SACW.........Don't bully him......... FB's an Aussie.......... some Aussies take on appalling right wing politics to demonstrate that they're not convicts any more.......

@SACatWalker Is it good for me to know that there is one person in this world will continuously awake each morning knowing that life must continue in order to hate Frayed Bear?
In a strange way @SACatWalker that is heartwarming. thank you.

@SACatWalker, @Abbelyne Isn't anyone who achieves the unreachable dream for everyone going to be considered ethical? [qz.com]

Silly question, if Jesus came back and could prove his claims would I join the cult? Yeah probably. The Christian Right is not going to do those things.

@Abbelyne lol. Hanson will be the first to be taken bare foot skiing over razor wire in shark infested waters.

@Buttercup Is Donald really consulting them and again what if they turn out to have favourable results from their answers??

@FrayedBear Yep, but it's not going to be achieved by that ridiculous child who's lying, abusing women, threatening international violence, destroying the environment and wildlife, spreading racism, supporting apartheid using prostitutes, committing fraud, undermining government and every other negative behaviour you can imagine

@FrayedBear Donald is a stooge and handy scapegoat if needed and again I would be overjoyed IF they did, but why speculate about something that's not going to happen.

@Buttercup The same reason not to think that a jumbo jet is going to drop from the sky on top of you? The glass is half full. Prophecy can be self fulfilling.

@Abbelyne Sounds like more of the same delivered by his predecessors?

@FrayedBear His predecessors weren't arrogant dickheads who openly flaunted assaulting women. I can't believe you're defending such an ignorant jerk. Please go away now and don't talk to me again or I'll block you.

@Abbelyne Clinton and Lewinski, Kennedy's and ... I'm not defending anyone I'm simply presenting an hypothetical as valid as 9/11, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the deliberate fire bombing by Americans of certain German cities at the end of WWII, the Chilean presidents murder on the original 9/11 back in 1973 ... The list is ongoing.
I suggest that blocking means that your cognitive dissonance is overriding your logic.

@FrayedBear My cognitive dissonance tells me that you personally have no respect for women, little sense of compassion, no empathy and that you're into power and control of other people. It's little wonder that you're incapable of seeing anything amiss in the current US style. Bye

Yes, but an affiliation with a particular wing of politics implies who you are in an ethical/social sense.

@Abbelyne for the most part I think you're right.

@Abbelyne And affiliation means what? In Canada many of us don't belong to parties and vote according to our consciousnesses on a candidate and issue basis. So affiliation means less up here than it may in other countries. I for one, have never joined a political party, but have always been politically active to one extent or another since i was a teen.

@Abbelyne, @Kojaksmom Sorry, just got up and am still somewhat thick. I see what you mean though, and i agree too. Someone once gave me a tee shirt which said "We are who we stand with." I was working for a union at the time and it was my payment & thanks for some work i had done for the local. I just watch out that i don't become biased against people, fighting issues with which I disagree. Separating the people from the issues is one of my fundamental philosophies by which i try to live. I better have breakfast because i believe i'm starting to run on. Lol

Don't forget, Trump LOST the election by the people by 3-million votes. The bought-and-paid-for Electoral College gave him his bogus "win". That's why he's so sensitive about it. In fact, there are far more Liberals in the US than Conservatives, but too many of them thought their vote wasn't needed and didn't bother. We really didn't know about how the Russians were concentrating on a few states that could be swung the other way at the last minute. Comey's fiasco added some doubt. No, the US is not a country of Ultra-Right-Wingers, but it often looks that way in the news because they have the political power now.

@mtnhome didn't think that Hilary was a good candidate though! Bernie maybe!

@Abbelyne Agree 100%. Bernie announced he's running again in 2020. Not sure he can win against Trump because Trump cheats the election process in endless ways. Hoping he's in jail by then.

@Abbelyne The 2016 elections in the US were rigged with help of the Russian intel apparatus. That is why Trump gets so nervous everytime Russia is mentioned by anyone. I hope the truth about that election comes out someday. It will be a healthy thing for America. Americans are so dumbed-out with lies, they don't know if they are coming or going.

@Abbelyne I was annoyed by the Bernie or bust idea that gained popularity. A lot of berniecrats were pushing it's either Bernie or you write in some a** for president. To me that's irresponsible.

I'm surprised at these results here too! I'm not surprised about how many Lefties there are here. I think agnostics and Freethinkers tend to be liberal. What surprises me here is how intolerant people are.

@Kojaksmom Sorry K........ the comment about Bernie was a throw away line. I live in Australia so I don't know the details of US political campaigns.......

@mtnhome "Bought and paid for electoral college"... No. I'm sorry, it's just that Trump managed to win in exactly the right states to swing the electoral vote without winning the popular vote. I didn't like it either, but it's exactly how the system was intended to work. Both parties play the system. If you want to go to a direct democracy, then the middle of the country won't matter anymore: Whoever wins the coasts will win the election. Trump won the middle last time and the electoral college went his way. That's simplistic but it's the way it went.

@Paul4747 You make it sound like you think the Electoral College is an independent group of non-partisan election evaluators. They're not. The actual voting members of the EC depend on which candidate takes the most electoral votes. They're selected and PAID for by that party and have a job to do... make sure their candidate is sworn-in as President. While it wasn't originally planned to be that way by the Constitution, the EC is a highly partisan PAID group of high-level supporters of the "winning" party who simply rubber-stamp the electoral votes, enjoy the festivities for a few days and go home as paid heroes for doing exactly the opposite of what the original drafters intended, which was to use their head. We don't need them as they no longer support the very checks and balances that created them. If this while 2016 election fiasco were simply reversed it would work the same way... the Dems' Electoral College would rubberstamp the electoral vote win and blindly swear-in the brain-damaged candidate who lost the popular vote thanks to illegal and outside influences.

So basically, not a conservative (you left out no religion).

I wish I could LOVE this comment instead of just like it!!! Lol

@JackPedigo I am best suited to Unitarian Universalist because I enjoy that community, but I am ok with agnostics and theists who have a less dogmatic idea of god. Can’t relate to folks who believe in a literal heaven and hell. Except the forms of hell we are dealing with on earth right now.

@UUNJ I was in those shoes at one time and belonged to a liberal, multi-religionist group of environmentalists. Unitarians was the predominant group (I still have a problem trying to understand why Unitarians are considered a Christian religion). It was called the Earth Ministry [earthministry.org] However, my late partner a lifelong Persian atheist was uncomfortable with that and eventually convinced me it was not a good fit so I left. I still see now she was right even though many of our travel club (Servas Intl) meetings were held at a local UU center.

@JackPedigo Since there isn’t a creed regarding the Trinity, I agree.

True, it is brutally divisive out there. I really wish we could go back to the time when there was a certain consensus in the political parties. But, unfortunately there is absolutely zero.

Hey. Be nice to snakes. Their morals reduce rodent populations.

@Countrywoman I stand corrected. OK, morals of a gutter rat. How is that?

it is possible. I know of a few couples that are Polar Opposites politically. they do take Jabs at one another ,and they do vent their hostilities towards one another ,but it seems to all be in good fun. They agree to disagree.
I find it easier to deal with people who own their opinions, even if it means admitting something extremely negative about themselves.

@Kojaksmom Exactly! If some people would just admit they're awful racists and horrible people in general and couldn't care less about anyone but themselves...instead of trying to justify their choices with utter nonsense, I'd actually respect them a tiny bit more. I mean, I would still despise them, but at least they would then be honest

You are not on either side of the fence. You straddle as both sides have merit. Tactics are the factor that separates us. How to solve the issues at hand.