10-11-2018, 05:14 AM
(10-11-2018, 03:43 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(10-11-2018, 01:34 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Well, I am glad that if you two can agree on anything, it is on dislike of the political establishments. The reds cannot nominate one of their own these days. The blues can, but lost the general election. Now, if you only were able to listen well enough to work together...I'm not a member of the GOP, I'm an independent Republican voter. What's the chances of a guy with Asperger's and a guy with no brain disorders being able to listen, understand and accept one another other well enough to be able to work together?
Asperger's syndrome does not affect my politics except to accentuate a vested interest in putting an end to the Trump era as early as possible. In any event, mocking the handicapped is horrible behavior, evidence of a lack of empathy, tact, taste, and morals. It is in the same zone of moral rottenness as the President mocking the late Senator John McCain for having been a prisoner of war of a thug regime (North Vietnam), a mockery that I find disgusting for reasons similar to those of mocking a reporter with autism. No, having Asperger's is nothing like being under the custody of a brutal regime. I do not need to be a former POW to recognize mockery of the handicapped or a victim of mistreatment as a POW is abominable.
Someone with Asperger's could be a conservative if most things go right. It's almost an asset in some economic activities if one adjusts appropriately. But nobody has an excuse for mocking people with mental disorders (including PTSD common among military veterans) or any obvious handicap (blindness, paraplegia, limb loss, deafness, senility), or debilitating diseases.
There is no alternative to people acting with basic decency toward those less fortunate.
I look at someone with limb loss or paraplegia and I can only think "there but for the Grace of God go I". Dementia, Parkinsonism, and cancer scare me. We are all but one encounter with a very bad driver from being crippled for life.
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.