Are You A Pot Stirrer?

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I am, although it's been a while and I'm due. I enjoy throwing a post on the fire just to stimulate conversation of controversial thoughts and ideas. Do you think for example that the majority of the posters on Senior Forums are politically left leaning or right leaning? My guess, and it's just a guess, is that the majority lean way left. What say you?
 

Well, I don't think I intentionally "stir the pot", but it sure does look like it happens that way. Oh well, we all have our own opinions on different things in life.
 
Nope I'm a fence sitter...unless it become personal...then I'm an attacker...but never a Pot stirrer...

however I do like to see a good devils advocate at work..very entertaining it can be
 

I'm Independent, so I go both ways, and have voted for both Bush and Obama. I'm for gun rights and the Keystone Pipeline for example, and I'm pro-choice, pro death penalty, etc. When it comes to protecting medicare and social security I lean left, because I'm against what the right wants to do regarding cutbacks or vouchers for senior "entitlements." More active posters here appear to be left leaning, being seniors who are concerned with their financial security in their old age, I'm not surprised...although many of us have worked hard all of our adult lives, not all of us are rich.
 
I'm not a pot stirrer. It can upset a lot of members and cause trouble.

But I'm not a pansy by a long shot. I hate name calling. (Check my signature.)

I've always been a staunch conservative but now being outnumbered by those who haven't seen the light YET.

All across the country, and the world, I've noticed who the liberals are and why they vote as they do.

Happy to say I'm not one of them.
 
Well, we've all noticed things, I'd say 'noticing things' is the number one reason I'm a liberal. Maybe liberals do stir the pot more, but we have much more material to work with.
 
It's strange that you think older people may be more left leaning, because I read that the opposite is true.Younger people are usually more liberal in their views than us oldies.
I'm not a pot stirrer, but sometimes it does make the forum more interesting , I agree, if people are very engaged with a subject.
 
I lean left, but only because that's the side I "dress" on. :rolleyes:

Pot stirring is like the freedom of speech discussion - sure, you can do it, but you have to be ready to pay the price.

As part of my former work as an acupuncturist I was the recipient of countless "needle" jokes - "Oh, you just like to needle people!".

Ha-ha. :rolleyes:

But isn't that just what stirring the pot is? Needling people? Unless one has a hidden agenda I see it as a somewhat more interesting form of social intercourse. I use it myself quite often, just to wake people up, but all too often they take it seriously - that I'm attacking them and their fundamental beliefs.

So the result of encountering this too many times? I just shut my mouth and keep my own counsel. The same people that cry that I'm attacking them with my words wouldn't have time to take another breath if I were REALLY intent on destroying them.

So, I just zip the lips.
 
SifuPhil said:
I lean left, but only because that's the side I "dress" on. :rolleyes:

Pot stirring is like the freedom of speech discussion - sure, you can do it, but you have to be ready to pay the price.

As part of my former work as an acupuncturist I was the recipient of countless "needle" jokes - "Oh, you just like to needle people!".

Ha-ha. :rolleyes:

But isn't that just what stirring the pot is? Needling people? Unless one has a hidden agenda I see it as a somewhat more interesting form of social intercourse. I use it myself quite often, just to wake people up, but all too often they take it seriously - that I'm attacking them and their fundamental beliefs.

So the result of encountering this too many times? I just shut my mouth and keep my own counsel. The same people that cry that I'm attacking them with my words wouldn't have time to take another breath if I were REALLY intent on destroying them.

So, I just zip the lips.
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Oh thank you, my headache is finally gone
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Well, I sure don't know about that (in red). I really wish that worked for me, but a number of times is sure doesn't.

AZ Jim said:
I am left on many issues and I lean right on others. Example: I support abortion and the death penalty. To have and defend opinion is not pot stirring IMNSHO.
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I am socially progressive and am concerned about social justice issues. This means that I tend to line up with the Left side of the political spectrum but I take them to task for their shortcomings as much as I do the Right. Both fall short of my expectations quite frequently. My political expectations are predicated on my Christian values of preferential treatment for the poor and disadvantaged.

Yes, I do like to stir the pot sometimes. Usually when everyone seems to be in unthinking agreement on some complex issue. We call it prodding the possum.
 
oakapple said:
It's strange that you think older people may be more left leaning, because I read that the opposite is true.Younger people are usually more liberal in their views than us oldies.
I'm not a pot stirrer, but sometimes it does make the forum more interesting , I agree, if people are very engaged with a subject.
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I automatically connect conservatism with christianity as I lived if for 30 year. I still hold to many of the moral values I was taught from the bible. It's really hard to know except the vote tells us if there are more libs then conservs I guess, or at least how many are voting. I think what would be interesting is to know, without a doubt, that every one able/legal to vote, did vote. I think that younger people tend to be more liberal as they are generally exposed to much more liberalism in this day and age.
 
I have become more liberal over the years on a wide range of issues, but then I never was influenced by what they call Christian Values.
 

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