Thread by @jcsbimp

1/22 - Your career success in politics, punditry, or preaching should not be threatened by conflicts in your Apparent Driving Moral Philosophy.

However, you should insure your career success's safety in this regard by having a good Actual Driving Moral Philosophy. [thread]

2/22 - Trumpism, the politics of the Radical Right and the Religious Right, and the political ideology behind American Conservatism as currently practiced, these all show shocking gaps between Apparent and Actual Driving Moral Philosophies.

3/22 - Luckily, despite what Theocrats and Dominionists might argue (via appeal to authority), there is a reasoned basis for sound and consistent moral philosophy, the kind that lacks worrisome gaps between one's Apparent and Actual Driving Moral Philosophies.

4/22 - We have T.M. Scanlon, moral philosopher, to thank for the articulation of a reasoned and, as importantly, compassionate basis for one's moral philosophy and for a moral philosophy as a whole: What We Owe to Each Other.

5/22 - Worrisome gaps between Apparent and Actual Moral Philosophies provide a reasoned basis for evaluating the actions of lawyers, judges, and politicians. Example: Do they favor corporations over the average citizen in the laws they choose to make, the judgements they give?

6/22 - And are these trying to mend the gaps between their Apparent and Actual Moral Philosophies through changing their ways to serve their societies, or by Manufacturing Consent in those societies by manipulating massive numbers of their constituents?

7/22 - Does this or that law, or this or that political ideology, do more to benefit prosperous capitalists, or for their corporations, than it does to benefit the average citizen, the good of society, One's Fellow Human Being?

8/22 - Reasons for paving over a gap between one's Apparent and Actual Driving Moral Philosophy are often enumerated in dollar amounts. This is true for pastors and pundits as well as for politicians.

9/22 - Powerful entities who benefit from all the work of politicians, pastors, & pundits pad the pockets of these effective manipulators. These benefit from Running Government Like a Business, versus Government of/by/for the People. Hence, Corporate Personhood & Money-as-Speech.

10/22 - Again, this is a reasoned, effective, and, importantly, DEMONSTRABLE measuring stick for the quality of both the prosperous & their corporations, and the politicians, pundits, and pastors themselves.

11/22 - Everyone will have their own particular opinion on whether there are gaps between the Apparent and Actual Driving Moral Philosophies of any particular politician, pundit, or pastor.

12/22 - "What We Owe to Each Other", especially compared with "What Is In It For Me", becomes an effective and justifiable gauge to measure and characterize such gaps.

13/22 - What are the Apparent and Actual Driving Moral Philosophies of corporate lobbyists? How and why do they work to preserve their political power in this regard? Do they use the fact that their money is more influential in Washington than our individual votes?

14/22 - And what of the politicians, pastors, and pundits whose pockets these prosperous powerful pad? Who among them have succeeded most by making those prosperous powerful happy?

15/22 - Also, how do these politicians, pastors, and pundits apparently feel, think, and act in terms of intellectual efforts to increase soundness of reason in law and government, and in the minds of the members of society as a whole?

16/22 - Does their Actual Driving Moral Philosophy seem anti-intellectual? Do they appear to have an axe to grind concerning the well educated, and demonstrably effective ways to become better educated, per se?

17/22 - To identify the powerful and prosperous who want to obfuscate the gap between the Apparent and Actual Moral Philosophies they favor with their influence and money, one barely needs to look beyond whose pockets these powerful and prosperous pad.

18/22 - Consider making these points, or engaging in reasoning based thereon, to a politician like @LeaderMcConnell, @Sen_JoeManchin, or @RepMTG. Consider doing this with their avid supporters.

19/22 - Consider making these points, further, to a pastor like @robertjeffress or @Franklin_Graham, to their congregations and donors, or to their sponsors.

20/22 - Consider, finally, pundits and those pushing influential (and possibly demonstrably manipulative) ideas via broadcast media under the name of "News" and "Opinions": @FoxNews, @TuckerCarlson, @seanhannity, @OANN, @newsmax. Compare with @ABC, @NBCNews, @CBSNews, @PBS, @NPR.

21/22 - Finally, yes! You can make the comparison. You can be a competent judge of this, and decide for yourself. If there is manipulation, you can free yourself from it. And woe to any politician, pastor, or pundit discouraging or disabling you from doing this competently!

22/22 - It is a reasoned analysis of why Dark Money needs to stay Dark to survive, and why Corporate Personhood and Money-as-Speech go unfettered: They are threatened by making apparent the moral gaps described here.

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