12-19-2018, 03:01 AM
(12-18-2018, 07:09 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(12-18-2018, 06:12 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:This site has an obvious political slant, an obvious three to one slant. You're a partisan blue. I'm not a partisan red. I'm a partisan American who doesn't view the blues as being all that American these days.(12-18-2018, 03:50 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(12-17-2018, 11:21 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: If I lack empathy, I can at least act as if I have it.
Political hack? We all have agendas, do we not?
What are you doing posting here? If you're supposed to avoid angry expressions of profanity or personal degradation, you shouldn't be posting here. You should stick to the rules and find a friendly left wing website that bans conservatives the moment one shows up.
This site should be and is politically neutral, but limited in allowing things like insults and obscenity. You have it backwards.
Other sites can be different.
The problem is that American conservatives gave in to the idea that the only moral virtue is profit and what one can do with it. Conservatives used to believe that people who didn't own the assets needed a stake in the economic order. The economic elites largely now want complete servility by the masses and unconstrained indulgence for elites. They want the common man to pay as much as possible for as tawdry life as is available that results from being overworked and underpaid. Those elites might not be capitalists; they might be bureaucratic elites in Big Business or in the government or non-profit entities. Even if capitalists, they are strictly owners of income streams from easy-to-operate enterprises. I see them delighted to drive living conditions to what they were in the early-capitalist age, the age in which Karl Marx drew his conclusions on how capitalist societies would operate.
The political slant seems to represent a reality among educated people, and those people realize either that the order that the economic elites want is unconscionable even if they fare well for now -- and among the well-educated people who have been cast to the economic margin, they recognize that the system may never work for them.
We must all recognize that a forum such as this itself discriminates against the ignorant and ill-educated. So does reality!
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.