11-09-2016, 08:02 AM
(11-09-2016, 05:49 AM)taramarie Wrote: However, that said I just saw this post and want to get people's thoughts on this.
"Please tell me how we teach children not to mock people with disabilities when the president does it.
Please tell me how we teach men to respect women when the president doesn't do it.
Please tell me how we teach white people that racism is bad when the president does it.
Please tell me how we teach teenagers that lying is bad when the president does it.
Please tell me how we teach kids that bullying is wrong when the president does it.
Please tell me how I explain this to my future children."
Maybe we must pull out the religious text with which we feel most comfortable and use examples of honorable behavior as models of what a corrupt and vile leader does that we must not do.
It's the old "do unto others what you would have them do to you". It's also "do no harm".
Donald Trump is just another bad man achieving a high office in a country, a man who will likely assume or accrete dictatorial powers and use them in ways contrary to the teachings of Moses, Jesus, Mohammad, Zoroaster, the Bab, Confucius, the Buddha, or Joseph Smith.
He is not the first. He is simply the first American President with undeniable sociopathy.
I expect him to steal. A private-sector kleptocrat who gets in charge of the biggest enterprise of all, he will find ways to give away assets in return for some personal bonus.
...As things deteriorate during a Trump Presidency -- civil unrest, an economic meltdown, diplomatic calamities, and wars that go badly, we shall see an unambiguous lesson on why bad behavior by a leader can get horrible results.
We must resist the evil that we see if we are to consider ourselves good.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.