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I have a Quora account, and I often answer questions, usually concerning politics. Sometimes I get no response. Sometimes I get less than desirable responses. Especially when I answer questions about guns. I received an email from Quora with this question on the night of December 7 and realized this was the perfect opportunity for each side to blatantly attack the other. Sure enough, when I read through the existing answers, that's what I saw. My answer to the posed question can be interpreted as an attack, even with what I admit about Hillary Clinton. I repost it here because it plays right into several things I've talked about in this blog. It is completely honest, not intended as an attack, and present it here with a couple of grammatical corrections and links to the relevant blogs. Why are people so obsessed with changing everyone else's political views to be their own? The answer to your question can only be answered if you understand one critical problem in the country today: People are not taught one basic skill that's one of the first things taught in other countries[, that being] how to listen. People continue to push their own viewpoints because they're so busy doing anything but listening that they never hear what's actually being said. It's also why many groups enter an "echo chamber" where all they hear is their own viewpoint. The far-right did this first, most recently with Parler deleting accounts for as little as a single comment, but now the far-left has started doing it since the 2016 primaries. This includes both Sanders supporters and die-hard feminists. Generally, those more toward the center on both sides have not done this. At this point, I need to note that by "die-hard feminists", I mean those who attacked anyone who opposed Hillary Clinton by calling them "misogynists" and "Trump supporters" at the first indication they were not supporting her. Since they're so busy talking over everyone (not the same as arguing, but a defense mechanism to avoid hearing something), they come across as trying to force their view on everyone. The truth is, it's more true of Evangelicals than anyone else, tnd they only know what their pastor tells them, which often usurps other topics the congregation knows little about. (A paragraph in this blog indirectly deals with that.) The perfect example is the claim that Trump will herald the Second Coming. I've been saying for eyars that the first step to listening is to shut up. The second step is to stay shut up. (This was covered in the first blog I linked to.) But in this country, for the last few decades, everyone has been encouraged to talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk. Thus, this entire country has become rude as hell. It's not their way, so they keep talking. The other person won't stop talking, so they do the same. The other person won't listen, so they ignore them. They keep going on with what's not being agreed with, so they block/unfriend/chase off/whatever. Basically, the normalization of a defense mechanism has created a situation where opposing viewpoints are not rectified, and . . . everyone instead treats opponents as "not listening". And although it is only an attempt to force a viewpoint part of the time, it now comes across that way most of the time. I should note that I also said some things I haven't brought up in my blog. Defense mechanisms, echo chambers, and the Evangelical view of Donald Trump are things I could have brought up in the past, but between time constraints and trying to keep each blog shorter than I would normally write, I never got around to any of them. We'll see what come up in the next blog. Until next time . . .

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