04-09-2020, 10:28 AM
(04-09-2020, 07:21 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(04-08-2020, 11:47 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Policy should follow truth. If a government policy does not benefit the people, she will say so and deservedly so. She got and keeps her show for reporting succinctly and truthfully on what is happening. You don’t. You insult. You imply she does something without reporting on what she allegedly did. You criticize what she says without saying what she said that you are criticizing. Like how do I correct your accusations of lying when you don’t or won’t or can’t say what lie she allegedly told? You are only showing your own ignorance and bias.
Where the (expletive deleted) is the beef behind what you are saying? What other than spreading insults are you doing?
It is hardly surprising she gets good pay while your opinions are pretty typical and held worthless.
Dude, she probably makes more than Trump right now. Liberals like you and others here value her and that's all that she needs and all that MSNBC must need too. The funny thing about liberals is the liberals have no clue who we really are these days. Dude, I know who the liberals are these days.
Dude, a pornographer might make more than a preacher, but if I am a religious person I am more likely to accept the advice of a preacher than that of the pornographer on how to live a good life. I am also more likely to heed a professor of philosophy who struggles to make ends meet (college professors are no longer paid well if the university can get away with such) than a successful bookie.
Income and wealth are not authority, and neither is poverty credibility. Authority comes from a solid presentation of fact in a rational manner. Rachel Maddow does that well. These days the divide between Left and Right in American politics is between bland liberals (largely) on the Left and near-fascists (yes, Donald Trump is one of them) on the Right. In a way I pity the genuine conservatives who now have practically no home since the Hard Right hijacked what used to be their Party. I welcome them to vote with liberals now because freedom matters more than does some agenda.
Conservative values are relevant in a genuine democracy; fascist values are not. If my side had to choose between Marxism and a bland conservatism, then most of us would go with the conservatives because liberalism can revive under conservatives. Marxists are as hostile to liberalism as they are to conservatism; I can replace "Marxists" with "fascists" in that sentence and still be equally true.
History is a bloody tale that delves into the obscene. It also shows what good people do not allow to repeat. The mangled wreck of a car following a head-on collision or slamming into a tree due to the misconduct of a driver is ugly -- but people prone to driving in ways in which such is possible might learn something from seeing that wreck. Maybe someone will be scared into driving more cautiously. So it is with photos of bodies stacked like cordwood at Nazi concentration camps or with exhibits of bones at memorials to those who died under the Khmer Rouge.
I hear the rhetoric of Donald Trump and I am scared. I have a handicap, and I have heard him mock mine.
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.