(01-13-2022, 07:27 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-13-2022, 06:04 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Never let the Perfect be the enemy of the Good. The Rotten win when we insist upon perfection when political vileness is better organized and lavishly funded. We have powerful elites who want an aristocratic order in all but name, one in which elites of ownership and management get complete dominion over politics and economics, condemning anyone not like them to grinding poverty and subjection. Those elites have at their core the belief that the rest of Humanity owes everything to them and that those elites owe nothing but bare sustenance as is necessary for keeping people alive to toil for them. If given the chance, they would arrange everything for themselves, and we would all achieve the sort of equality with what American blacks used to endure in "Kukluxistan" and South African blacks endured under Apartheid while the economic elites wallow in unconstrained power and indulgence.
Just look at the political figures on the Right. Most endorse the most despotic President in American history and fault him, if at all, for not being despotic enough -- or failing to crush liberalism before beginning the internal purge of the GOP.
On the other hand I would love to see the Right splinter between the fascists and the libertarians.
As a People we must put liberty above ethnic and religious identity... and even economic gain and security. The Hard Right has won some elections on promises of economic miracles that never pan out for any but the elites. The rest of us get to work longer and harder for less and pay more due to the monopolization and other corruption in necessities from housing to food to fuel to medicine. Those already rich wax even fatter while strangling freedom of those not them.
The Capitol Putsch gives us cause to recognize how precarious liberty and democracy are. Forged papers "offering" slates of electors contrary to the popular vote of those states (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) have been exposed in recent days. A second term of Trump would have initiated a dictatorship in which those who won the last election choose the results of every subsequent election. That's how things were done behind the Iron Curtain, if for a different agenda. One Big Happy Plantation may be the economic antithesis of Marxist-Leninist economics, but the techniques are much the same.
Are you Perfect PB? Is Bob Perfect PB? Are Eric and Dave Perfect PB?
Do we say that we are perfect?
Quote:Dude, the only Perfect human being was beaten to a bloody pulp and paraded through the streets and then crucified and left hanging there to die a slow and miserable death a couple thousand years ago. Other than year that we live in, are you at all related to him PB
We are all related. We don't know how. I do genealogy, and I have more question marks than exclamation points.
Quote:Are there any blues posting here who are related to him these days? I see a lot of blues using him and using his beliefs to attract people and use them to gain power as they're attacking his believers and removing symbols related to him and his father so to speak. Who am I PB?
I know of no Jewish ancestry in myself, so I cannot assume a clear genealogical connection to Him. This said, if you use Christian teachings for an evil end (such a tyranny or economic exploitation) then you blaspheme. As for religious symbols I have no problem with private-sector expressions of personal faith. A statue of the Virgin Mary in one's front yard in no way offends me. The use of public funds to promote a religious position is wrong. I believe in separation of Church and State because such separation prevents much corruption of both.
Quote:Am I the Devil or equal to the Devil?
Uh, Hitler offed himself in 1945.
Quote:As you can see, I'm anything but Perfect?
We all fall short of God's desires, says any Christian clergyman of whom I know. I have big problems with some tendencies within Christianity, including the treatment of all flawed behavior a "sin". I'm not going to confuse overeating with perpetration of the Holocaust.
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Quote:I mean, what won't I do PB? What aren't I free to do? Is there anything a Rotten won't do PB? Are you in with the Rotten that we see or the Perfect who are Rotten that we see? You ain't Perfect. You've proven beyond all doubt many times. You ain't Rotten to the core like most of your politicians and billionaires and donor class/aristocracy these days. I mean, you got to be Rotten to do business with the Devil and they're all Rotten PB. So, which blue shit hole do you and the others prefer to be dropped off and left to die in PB? Right now, you have choices that you won't have for much longer. Like I've said, you better pull your head out/wise up and start showing me/us something other than the shit you've been showing me/us for over a decade now.
You seem to be a fervent supporter of Donald Trump, a man of pervasive depravity. I need say no more. I have no respect for any admirer of gangsters, serial and mass murderers, shysters or scammers, or terrorists. Anyone who admires such people has a huge moral gap in need of rectification.
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.