The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Classic-Xer]

(02-01-2020, 09:57 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Regrettably you don't. Donald Trump convinced the Muslim parents of a son who died in Iraq in an attempt to establish a democratic order to replace a regime that was antithetical to democracy and hostile to a large part of its Muslim population... of his hostility to Islam. No, hostility to Islam is not racist in the sense that Nazi-style antisemitism is racist above all else. Bosnian Muslims do not look like Indonesian Muslims who do not look like Nigerian Muslims. Trump is not so much a racist as a religious bigot.

Let us recall what George Washington said in his letter to the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island in 1787:

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Muslims claim a similar link to Abraham through his son Ishmael. It is as legitimate as the Jewish claim to a connection more directly through Abraham. Those who admire our Founding Fathers (and I could make the case that Martin Luther King is the last of those Founding Fathers) . Religious bigotry of any kind is a menace to us all. I once told a Nazi that as a German-American with no Jewish ancestry and no family ties to Judaism that if I had to choose between being a Nazi and a Jew I would be a Jew -- and it would be easy because there is no cultural or moral difference between Judaism and me, but that Nazism is an affront to my culture (after all, many of the Jews that Hitler killed might have as well been Germans) and would destroy much of my culture (of course, German-Americans are the gentiles most similar to the Ashkenazim in culture). Too bad about pork and shellfish if I had to go Orthodox... but far better would it be giving up pork and shellfish than becoming a murderer in spirit. 

I am going further: if I had to choose between tyranny that adopts American garb and starts setting up torture chambers or shooting pits for dissidents and pariahs and Islam... I would choose Islam, whose culture is very different from mine and which, unlike Reform Judaism, precludes pork, shellfish, beer, and wine -- all of which I enjoy. Morality means more than culture... 

When the time comes to incarcerate Donald Trump for his offenses against the Constitution and against the federal and state criminal codes, I have my idea of how to treat him. I would inflict upon him classical music and literary classics. I would compel him to read the Bible, the Quran, and Buddhist sutras, as well as secular philosophy. (My idea of how to run a male reformatory is to make sissies out of those tough macho types and make them fully human. I would compel them to wear pink uniforms as signals of their bad choices in life). Donald Trump is about as shallow as the typical criminal in the penal system. That is the problem: he gets away with it. Unlike the usual pimp or pusher he has been able to find people in awe of him.  

...Trump has said horrible things of Islam. It is fair to judge Muslims by the ethical standards of Islam, which explains how we could allow Muslims to judge Saddam Hussein. Murder, plunder, and persecution of Muslims are violations of Islamic law. They are also un-Christian. The ethical standards of Islam are far higher than the standards that Donald Trump has for himself. 


I am satisfied with those X'ers who believe that Donald Trump is contrary with their rational self-interest as is so with me. Trump exuded warning signs in 2016, and more people have come to recognize those throu8gh his actions. .

You are satisfied with Xr's going along with so called liberals? Just so I understand who you are and your values , which term do you identify with more these days, the term Democrat or the term liberal?