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JWilsonphoto wrote:
Personally, I don't believe that we have let politics get in the way of the real meaning and mission of this conversation. Stop and analyze it, our political content has been a tiny, tiny.......TINY, part of the zillions of pages and posts over the life of MA2A. So let me get this straight, someone is going to deprive themselves of the great friendships, the unlimited help of this knowledge base and just the downright pleasure that it is to hang out here, because someone here might not believe what they believe politically.....now think about that for a minute and the absurdity should hit you like a truck. We have lost people for political reasons, but I think that they were people who leaned left and were part of the "love you long, long time, as long as you think just like I do" mentality, and, truthfully, this is a better place without folks who subscribe to that mindset. We have people that come and go from here who served our country fearlessly, more skin in the game than I have ever had, or ever will, some of them have views that are diametrically opposed to mine, but I respect the hell out of them and the price that they paid to hold those views. I sure don't agree with a lot of what is going on in America at the moment, and hope for a turn around, but most of it is really common sense and I think if we sat down at Salt Grass after an air show we would mostly agree on the the big points.
Funny, I went to Sheila's high school reunion a few years back and a friend of ours husband, a guy with a delightful Scottish accent and a great personality decided to stick to me like velcro for the evening. He had heard that I was a pilot and a commercial photographer, both of which intrigued him. Problem was, he was a dyed in the wool socialist, living in Chicago, and, instead of aviation and photography, he decided to make it his mission to convert me to his way of thinking, it was a painful evening to say the least. I did my very best, successfully I might add, to remain respectful, incredulous, but respectful. Fast forward to today, that gentleman, his business gutted by Chicago politics, the pandemic shutdown, mandatory vaccines, along with usurious taxation and onerous regulation, illegal immigration, is now just to the right of Atilla The Hun in his political thinking. Our next evening together, which is unlikely to happen, would be a very different one. Like the old saying, "it's all wonderful until it's your Ox that's being gored....".
MA2A is, and has always been, a place where everything is welcome, except for nastiness and disrespect, I hope it always remains so. ...Show more →
It will Jim. There are way too many patriots, right, left, middle...here to let any nastiness be prolonged! We can always send them to New Guinea where the cannibals eat anything, even his uncle, according to someone!
Dan
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