12-25-2016, 04:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-25-2016, 05:26 AM by Eric the Green.)
(12-24-2016, 07:40 PM)radind Wrote:(12-24-2016, 07:20 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: So it was radind, in addition to making sure the slave states joined the union. I say 1) let the slave states go if they want, and 2) establish a parliamentary system, and thus end the need for the compromise.
As a compromise, the electoral college now does not have any relevance. It does not represent the people.
The former 'slave states' are no longer slave states. I am hearing more about leaving from the liberal progressives.
The electoral college still protects the rights of the smaller states.
That liberals want to leave, shows that in fact it still is a slave state. The legacy of slavery is still with us, especially in places like Alabama, but also everywhere in the USA where people continue to support that legacy by voting for it.
The electoral college protects the ability of a minority of deceived voters to choose our president. Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania are not small states.
It is a bit of a task to control my reactions to people such a radind, who seem intelligent, and willing to understand and explore issues like climate change. I don't want to dump on him too much. But he claims that he cannot listen to much of what I say, because he has a different world view. But it is not a different world view; it is only turning away from reality. Radind is as capable of anyone of recognizing reality. My words will not help him, I know. But I also know that some people in Alabama-- maybe a small minority--- are able to do just that.
People in Alabama can change; especially some young people and their teachers. I enjoyed watching this program tonight on the World Channel, along with The Buddha, Wayne Dyer, and angelic singing by Libera on PBS. It was nice programming for Christmas Eve. This program linked below shows how young people, black and white, can work together to produce a play based on a classic novel and film that represents better than any other what Alabama had to deal with, and still deals with today. I wonder if radind has the courage to watch it.
http://worldchannel.org/programs/episode...ckingbird/
http://www.pbs.org/video/2365417086
We will push forward, and we shall overcome together, or so I hope. Some of us will stand up against the conformity of current opinion. But to "look forward" to a president who intends to destroy the climate, kill wildlife, open up sacred places everywhere to more drilling, more mining, more pipelines, more killing; to destroy our public education system, to take back health care and guarantees of higher pay for overtime, to allow greedy corporations to take advantage of workers and consumers, to take away voting rights and freedom, to stir up racial and religious bias and hatred, and enshrine white supremacy in The White House; to "look forward" to all that, and more stuff like it, knowing full well whom Trump is appointing, shows lack of moral compass.
And despite his claims, radind is still deeply embedded in the old red-state culture and mindset, which is still largely based on the slave society of the past which the electoral college was set up to protect-- and DID protect on Nov.8. But I believe the moral compass does live inside of him, and each of us, if like The Buddha and The Christ, we can learn to calm and transcend the cravings and temptations within us and discover that we are all the divine source; buddhas and christs all. And that we are all one people on one Earth, now under threat from we the people.