10-08-2018, 01:41 AM
(10-07-2018, 02:50 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: But grasping onto an unsustainable past, just like reaching for a star light-years away, is itself futile and irrational. The culture of elite greed is itself damned for an extreme materialism that it demands that others accept as the rightful role of those elites, and poverty as the reward for obedience to those elites. Philosophical absurdities always implode -- but one can never predict when they will implode.
It is easy to judge past conservative positions by the newer values. Kings have to yield to democracy. Slavery has to end. It seems less easy to dismiss the current set of conservative absurdities. Yes, they may seem absurd and evil by you and me. That does not prevent an extremist from plunking the word 'American' on how things have always been and expect them to always be.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.