31 Dec 2020 7:03 pm
For sure the truth is nobody is perfect. People who forgive others likely understand this fact about themselves. Why are they weak with no power, when they are no worse a human specimen than those with might, or the wealthy who have been given the golden key at birth. Surely it is a system that feeds the rich and decimates the poor over time. And this of course makes the world worse off. Forgiveness is essential but forgiveness does not equal reconciliation. You can forgive someone and then walk away from them and never see them again. I heard this bit today on NPR while driving today. In essence we do need to forgive but we also need to see more of the truth as a people. And we need to understand that reparations for those who have been weakened over long periods of societal wrongs is in truth everybody's job.zkyll8 » 18 Dec 2020, 1:03 pm » wrote: ↑ I think this a crucial point that some of our friends within the Democratic Party need to realize.
We need to put the power back into the people's hands and not the rich and powerful.
With the correct leadership and organization Democrats will have the chance to win over the disenfranchised and hard working Americans that once carried the Democratic Party to power.
The truth is we all want a larger middle class. Where more people can themselves become good stewards to preserve what works the best for all. Then, you have better schools, it's a conservative liberalism, that restores truth while allowing free thought. The magic, the gold if you will, is in the people, how they live and how they contribute to the whole of society is what counts. And yes, that comes from the regular people, the downtrodden too.
You cannot build a perfect model, you do need to fully reveal true history with all of its warts. There is so much to do, this could one day be seen as a good thing.
Most especially for the young. We need to learn about the past and also understand that mistakes will happen, this is truly something we can and should anticipate. The slippery slope adage defies logic only to those who keep good people down with lies.
I would not give much credit to a conservative like James J. Kilpatrick who thought massive organization was needed to fight back against the Supreme Courts ruling in Brown v The Board of Education in thinking that such a ruling upended states rights. Even though it was Kilpatrick who said that for every one angry letter he received from a liberal, he would receive 500 from so-called conservatives bent on wacky conspiratorial theories, such as the John Bircher Society - he said this in 1969 on the Dick Cavett show, which I rewatched the other day. It was interesting to watch because Arthur C. Clark was on that same very show.
And I remember arguing with my history teacher in tenth grade about the true reason for the civil war. The history book taught back then that the civil war was about states rights. Well it just was not I argued as a fourteen year old, it was about slavery and where that would take us. Lincoln was right. This is the United States, one country, for all the people, and not just some. Black Americans fought in the Revolutionary War, and so too did naturally born Americans.
And yet, still each State should have power to govern, just like any city should.
I guess in the end it has to come down to people. Nobody is perfect, but we need to readdress the beauty of all of our diversity. We need to do as such in order to restore a more perfect union. That's what democracy is for. It's not about jingoism. It's not about made up **** patriotic lies. We know those who have gone and fought the wars. Or at least we better understand who they are and why they went because if we don't we all lose sight on hope, and then, nothing's worth much.
Power to the people, if people are the power. And they are, all of them are. Which has nothing in the least bit to do with Nationalism.
BTW, on a podcast I heard some guy say that Trump came along at the exact right time. When people no longer believe in government institutions, it was either Bernie, or the other side filled with lies. Populism can be good or it can be very wrong. Some people can forgive, but with that we need to learn.
Don't be a prude in the puddin'
Don't use corporate schematic phrases, like "thinking out of the box", without first thinking.
When in the case of Donald J. Trump, the truth is, we never should have opened that box, since WE ALL should have known ALL TOO WELL what was inside it was terribly wrong!!!