> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 9:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OT] Moral McCain > > >Arf.... try living under a real socialist government, the democrats > are > >considered on the right by most standards, nationalisation, price > >controls, currency limits, fixed working weeks, minimum wages, tiered > >tax rates, serious red tape to manage staffing, legalised works > councils > >with rights to impose controls on owners of companies, state run > media, > >censorship etc > > Which is exactly what the Ds want to bring to the US. Perhaps you may > now understand why many of us not only oppose their ideas, but detest > them personally for trying to impose them on us.
I don't detest anybody personally for their views, actually, and very often get along quite well with folks whose views are diametrically opposed to mine on the "intellectual battlefield"; but I do oppose the things they (think they) stand for because I believe they do injustice to everything noble, good and true. People are often compelled to believe and vote a certain way by enslavement to spirits of resentment, unforgiveness and various vices, which they have acquired along life's way and which they mistake for "who they are." Identity politics is bad, bad, bad, whether from the ostensible Left or Right--it's all about spiritual slavery, and is used by demagogues on both sides to orchestrate rousing rallies and demonstrations to scare people into voting for all kinds of dangerous things they'd never, in their right mind, vote for in a moment of dispassionate inquiry. The rise of socialism in the 19th, 20th and now 21st centuries is a case study in manipulation of identity politics--pitting so called "classes" against each other, and creating an ever-more-widely swinging pendulum of radical shifts from left to right and left again until liberty is lost completely across the board. The wreckage that remains is usually unrecognizable as a civilized society when it has run its cycle. - Bob > > -- > Larry Miller _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
