(10-06-2018, 04:49 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(10-05-2018, 09:30 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(10-05-2018, 08:50 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Well, Eric associates himself with those who have been prospering the most from globalization. Eric hasn't seen the devastation caused by globalization. Eric doesn't seem to stray very far from the comforts, the safety, the familiarity and the good feelings associated with home. Hilary saw it and heard about it for years, ignored it or excused it and offered more government welfare and more educational programs and more federal money for support and so forth. I'm not an isolationist but I'm not blind, foolish or a sucker either. My only issue with your views is you keep looking to the government to provide this or that for your sake, legalize this for your sake and tax us more for this and that in order to support this or that and increase the amount for government to spend on this or that for your sake. At what point in your life have you been able to have it both ways, have your cake and eat it too and so forth. The way I see it, I gave you my support in the last election. I didn't have to but I did with my support of Trump. I make really good money working part time.
Donald Trump believes in the centralization of federal power when such enhances his and devolution when such can enrich his cronies.
You liberal views seem consistent with the views of someone who has been diagnosed with Asperger's disease.
No, my liberal views are consistent with a 'disease' called 'conscience' in a time in which the real rulers are mostly corrupt, cruel, and in contempt for democratic decencies. I dislike being stepped upon, and I trust that most people dislike being stepped upon, too -- and that the vast majority of people have no desire to step on other people. If economic elites select for cruelty, then that elite has a huge problem that might have horrible consequences that lead in the end to the ruin of that elite. Pathological elites tend to be overthrown in revolutions and international wars that they provoke through their evil.
A set of soft rules for the elites and a set of rigid rules for non-elites usually works badly. With rank and power rightly go responsibilities to use those wisely.
The Golden Rule (basically, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you") exists from antiquity and arises in both the Abrhamamic and Dharmic religions, has existed long before anyone had any idea of what Asperger's was. People like me used to be understood to be crazy when in fact we are simply cold, unfeeling rationalists who must pretend to care about others just to have any decency as people.
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.