08-25-2021, 11:24 AM
(08-24-2021, 06:19 PM)galaxy Wrote: (Sorry to make a new thread just for this, but I couldn't find a better place to post it)
https://buffalonews.com/news/state-and-r...7d2d1.html
This quote immediately brought my mind to S&H when I read it. It's an extremely 4T thing to say and to set as a goal. Her whole speech was very saecular, but this is the sentence that stood out above all others.
As chaotic as it may look on the ground, in many ways we are "doing the 4T thing" as a nation in spite of ourselves. Stay hopeful, friends.
No apology needed. The faults of Andrew Cuomo were of personal behavior and character, and not his agenda.
As a general pattern, liberals do not suffer their rogues. Right-wingers do, at least if they are on the authoritarian track. One of the most flagrant examples is Adolf Hitler, who drove a woman to suicide and staged an insurrection against the shaky Weimar Republic and then became the leading player in German politics (if never winning an outright majority) on a campaign on law-and-order and 'family values'. Donald Trump isn't quite as bad, but he still has a large following. Should he run for President he would get at least 45% of the popular vote against an Obama-like pol. (Obama is one of those "do the crime and do the time" types, and his family values are beyond reproach).
Liberals have had their Regeneracy. They want a trustworthy government capable of doing real good for people... and no scandals of sex or corruption. Some conservatives may already want that, but the GOP to which they have long connections wants a government that well serves the rich and powerful while pandering to mass anger and mass superstition. The old sort of conservative who still prefers personal initiative to either crony capitalism or a bloated welfare state has no real home. The fascistic (right-wing populist) part of the GOP is taking over the Party and squeezing out those with a more libertarian approach to economics.
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.