Hey Fake Conservatives!
Have something to say worth listening to. Think something that goes deeper than a Fox Dada report if you want to be taken seriously
The fight is NOT Dem vs Pub.
The essential fault line in America is NOT Conservative v. Liberal.
It is ideas vs ignorance
Have something to say worth listening to. Think something that goes deeper than a Fox Dada report if you want to be taken seriously
The fight is NOT Dem vs Pub.
The essential fault line in America is NOT Conservative v. Liberal.
It is ideas vs ignorance
One of the great con jobs perpetrated upon the country by its ostensible "leaders" is that the essential problem in the country is one of Conservative ideology and prescriptions vs Liberal ones.
This becomes a great fake when the GOP takes unto itself the mantle of Conservative
This becomes a great fake when the GOP takes unto itself the mantle of Conservative
and makes the term Liberal an accusation.
The error is easily demonstrated in the advent of the Right Wing (not conservative) leader Trump. The one that, to a person, before he manages to expose the rot at the root of the Republican Party, and how easily it could be taken over,
The error is easily demonstrated in the advent of the Right Wing (not conservative) leader Trump. The one that, to a person, before he manages to expose the rot at the root of the Republican Party, and how easily it could be taken over,
was explicitly condemned and rejected. Graham, for example, noting that accepting Trump would be the end of the R.Party. And Cruz correctly calling out Trump as a 'pathological liar'.
And yet see how quickly and easily each of these stalwarts crumbled; how weak
And yet see how quickly and easily each of these stalwarts crumbled; how weak
they, and the entire party, including McConnell, are, and how, despite their grip on power, had it so easily wrested from them.
This is the consequence of having, not a Conservative, platform, but one that is based solely on the getting and having power.
When power shows up there
This is the consequence of having, not a Conservative, platform, but one that is based solely on the getting and having power.
When power shows up there
is no defense. And now wimps like @tedcruz, @SenatorCollins, @LindseyGrahamSC, @marcorubio & others, want to be part of the national conversation? When all they have to say is more of the demagoguery that landed them, and the country, in the shithole of Trump's America?
Trump is the penultimate manifestation of the rotted GOP platform of the last 50+ years. The Con that started when the basic Eisenhower Republican was replaced by Nixon, and then fruited in Reagan.
The erosion of Gov for the purpose of creating a "more perfect Union" to be
The erosion of Gov for the purpose of creating a "more perfect Union" to be
replaced w the prime objective of Gov to serve the few and the powerful.
It took awhile. The movement's "John the Baptist" has surfaced someone like "Donald Trump".
The battle lines of this great farce is not Conservative v. Liberal. Those have become meaningless words, not
It took awhile. The movement's "John the Baptist" has surfaced someone like "Donald Trump".
The battle lines of this great farce is not Conservative v. Liberal. Those have become meaningless words, not
useful, indicative identifiers of ones basic framework.
Democrats are far more, actually, "conservative" these days than Republicans.
The battle lines are elsewhere, masquerading under these flags. The battlelines are the ones the historians have so well laid out.
Democrats are far more, actually, "conservative" these days than Republicans.
The battle lines are elsewhere, masquerading under these flags. The battlelines are the ones the historians have so well laid out.
Go read Jill Lapore, @HC_Richardson, @TimothyDSnyder for a wide range of detailed, specific perspective on the times. The larger context of this moment.
Find Dan Carlin & Hard Core History for another way to look at things. So many others, all wanting to help our comprehension
Find Dan Carlin & Hard Core History for another way to look at things. So many others, all wanting to help our comprehension
of the moment.
Obama said it succinctly. The leaders of today do not know what they are doing. They are not asking the right questions.
It is this that is the great need of the moment.
We need to understand the Questions we are grappling with. The ones that are wrestling
Obama said it succinctly. The leaders of today do not know what they are doing. They are not asking the right questions.
It is this that is the great need of the moment.
We need to understand the Questions we are grappling with. The ones that are wrestling
with us.
It is for lack of the ability to understand the times sufficiently to understand that a new question is in play, and we have not yet gotten to it. That the old thinking, the old battles, of Republican v Democrat, no longer are accurate, nor useful, frameworks to
It is for lack of the ability to understand the times sufficiently to understand that a new question is in play, and we have not yet gotten to it. That the old thinking, the old battles, of Republican v Democrat, no longer are accurate, nor useful, frameworks to
understand what we must do, Now.
This is why, Ted Cruz, you, and those of your ilk, are not invited to the table to have serious discussions.
You have nothing to offer. Nothing to say that is worth hearing.
This is why, Ted Cruz, you, and those of your ilk, are not invited to the table to have serious discussions.
You have nothing to offer. Nothing to say that is worth hearing.
When you had your chance, when it mattered, when you might have made a difference, you chose your "bowl of lentils" over the good of the country.
The discordant strains from the far right that have become the central policies of the current "Republican Party"
The discordant strains from the far right that have become the central policies of the current "Republican Party"
that are destroying the country.
It is not Conservative policies or ideas that are in play. It is Raw power that energizes the current "Republican" Party with the vision and hopes & that inform its policies.
Raw anti-American ideas specifically contradictory to the founding
It is not Conservative policies or ideas that are in play. It is Raw power that energizes the current "Republican" Party with the vision and hopes & that inform its policies.
Raw anti-American ideas specifically contradictory to the founding
principles in the founding documents of the country. Do they need to be stipulated again?
Rule of Law
Justice for all
Consent of the Governed
Distribution of Power
Purpose to create a better society
which has so many implications
Freedom.
Truth & openness of Gov.
&etc....
Rule of Law
Justice for all
Consent of the Governed
Distribution of Power
Purpose to create a better society
which has so many implications
Freedom.
Truth & openness of Gov.
&etc....
Freedom of the press for example.
The Republican Party considers the Press the Enemy of the People.
This is not a "conservative" idea. It is an authoritarian one. (Extremist, whether fr the Left or Right)
You have nothing to say about this, except to slavishly accept the lie
The Republican Party considers the Press the Enemy of the People.
This is not a "conservative" idea. It is an authoritarian one. (Extremist, whether fr the Left or Right)
You have nothing to say about this, except to slavishly accept the lie
because that is what the party demands of you.
This is why you are not invited to talk. You have nothing to say.
COVID is both a pan epidemic and a metaphor.
The current holders of power, marshaled under the banner of the Republican Party, have no idea how to contend with it
This is why you are not invited to talk. You have nothing to say.
COVID is both a pan epidemic and a metaphor.
The current holders of power, marshaled under the banner of the Republican Party, have no idea how to contend with it
So it is dealt with with lies.
As with the many epidemics that have been rampaging through the country, immune from the solutions presented, COVID, is a strain that will no longer be contained.
It demands new thinking in a time of ostrich level ignorance.
As with the many epidemics that have been rampaging through the country, immune from the solutions presented, COVID, is a strain that will no longer be contained.
It demands new thinking in a time of ostrich level ignorance.
This is why you, Ted Cruz, and your compatriots are not invited to serious discussions. All you have to offer is regurgitated sloppy ideas that got you and yours into power, but have no capacity to deal with the deadly needs of the moment.
The imperative of this moment in time. 2020. Is to think anew.
Because of the COVID chaos, we have the opportunity to rethink our axiomatic foundations that we have held - or been told - are absolute, unchanging and unchangable.
Because of the COVID chaos, we have the opportunity to rethink our axiomatic foundations that we have held - or been told - are absolute, unchanging and unchangable.
The "battle lines" now are between those forces that are quite comfortable with the way things have been and are loath to have the structures of society be otherwise; and those who have labored under those rules and structures and have hopelessly wished it could be different.
That is one way to frame the tensions of the moment.
There are others.
Like changing the Summa Bona from having money (power) along with all the life conditions that implies, to one where the core axiomatic purpose of a society is truly to instantiate Life, Liberty & the
There are others.
Like changing the Summa Bona from having money (power) along with all the life conditions that implies, to one where the core axiomatic purpose of a society is truly to instantiate Life, Liberty & the
freedom to pursue one's happiness. And in doing so, to contribute to the overall commonweal.
Come to the table, to the Public Square, with new questions, and new ideas about how to understand this struggle, and how to think about these things in a time of upset and chaos, and
Come to the table, to the Public Square, with new questions, and new ideas about how to understand this struggle, and how to think about these things in a time of upset and chaos, and
world that might be created out of the suffering of this time of COVID (both virus and metaphor).... Then you and those who currently are on the other side of this conversation...will be welcome to join this one.
At root, we have a @Systemic problem. We have a problem of not knowing how to ask the right question(s). We have a @SystemsThinking problem.
We are fighting the wrong things. We are divided along fault lines that serve other (and other's) purposes.
We are fighting the wrong things. We are divided along fault lines that serve other (and other's) purposes.
We are poised at the precipice of a new and more angry "Civil War". One that has the elements of the last one that never was decided, that has been incubating all this time. And while thus incubating has gathered new force, new ideas, refocused the questions and now threatens to
use the principles of America to destroy America once and for all.
This is where we are in the pattern of Democracies, and how, and when, they perish.
We are again, & always, at the precipice, Lincoln laid out the last time we got close to this edge, before the country fell
This is where we are in the pattern of Democracies, and how, and when, they perish.
We are again, & always, at the precipice, Lincoln laid out the last time we got close to this edge, before the country fell
into that cauldron...that sifting...
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
So it is.
This is the important and necessary discussion that is the center of the Public Square.
If you don't want to have this conversation, you & yours will not be invited. Talk amongst yourselves on your propaganda stations. What you have to say is wrong, and boring.
This is the important and necessary discussion that is the center of the Public Square.
If you don't want to have this conversation, you & yours will not be invited. Talk amongst yourselves on your propaganda stations. What you have to say is wrong, and boring.
Seems to me we are not yet at the final step. That we are not yet at the edge where the next step is full on battle and the impossibility of "thinking differently".
Lets have this conversation.
Lets ask better questions. They are in the air. I have heard them.
They need to be what we are talking about.
Lets ask better questions. They are in the air. I have heard them.
They need to be what we are talking about.
