The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

I keep reinforcing that the arrow of progress is real.  Various conservative have contested it, saying the victors write the history books, that whoever wins gets labeled progressive.

Really?

Kings are better than democracy?

Blacks in inherently inferior and ought to be slaves?  Civilization has always depended on slavery, and always will?

The economy should be unregulated?  The boom and depression cycles should be allowed to run unfettered?

Dictators and autocracy are wonderful?  Conquest is a fine way to acquire a race power, territory and resources?

Blacks should not be allowed to eat or sleep in businesses established for that purpose?  

Science is ignorable?  It is better to live in a dream?

People should be murdered if their skin color is different?

Conservatives always came up with excuses why privilege and inequality should continue.  They continue to do so, even here.  This often involves convoluted logic.  It isn’t generally stupidity.  It is culture, and history, and tribal thinking.  It is still as blatantly wrong today as it has always been.

Every two to four generations, an oppressed minority will demand that the concept of people being equal under law become more true.  This seems to be one of those times.  There are all sorts of convoluted attempts to maintain this oppression by various people claiming down is up and the sky is green.  This is just like in the past.  This is just as wrong as in the past.

And just like in the past, it is futile.  The time has come.  Time for the culture to change.