Thankyou for putting into words what, I am sure, a few million of us have been struggling to verbalize for several years. It's hard to remain positive when there are so many negatives staring you in the face. I just keep recounting everything President Trump has accomplished so far and hope others are doing the same.
Weirdly Machiavelli also held that liberty could not survive among widespread corruption. Machiavelli is viewed badly because he is remembered more for his puff piece written for the Medici prince rather than for his much more extensive and thoughtful Discourses in which he revealed his real longing for republican government.
"legal manipulation of the Constitution was just beginning"
Hahaha - it started with Hamilton's argument for the First Bank of the United States while Washington was President and his faction, the Federalists were in power. Congress had no power to charter it under any clause of Article I, so he deemed it "necessary and proper". Jefferson who bitterly opposed the Bank would subsequently find it necessary and proper to make the Louisiana Purchase. Much as the Gerrymander dates to this same time frame. Politics has been a messy business from day one, and the Constitution barely holds it in check, then and now.
Thanks for the warning...There's a lot of funk going on all around I think. For some folks they're just looking for something to confirm all their negative prognostications, Then they get really PO'd when they don't come true. To divide a group is to prove yourself powerful, and what better way to do that than point out every negative thing you can come up with....and see? it's contagious! I try to keep myself level by reading all those great thinkers whose work has gone into this glorious republic and remembering that they recognized how awful humans can be, as well as courageous and good. Understanding through them how society and government works assures me that "this too shall pass" (if only temporarily). It helps keep the funk away. ~ Pollyanna
People pervert the plain meaning of written and spoken words because they see themselves as smarter and holier than anyone that has ever lived before them. They are too absorbed by their egos and have never learned how to consider or *logically* refute a point of view (with proveable data) outside their own thoughts. So they lash out instead and re-define words to fit their personal view of “how things should be”.
I believe that the Democrats do mean well, but are far more in love with the idea of doing good things than the hard work of figuring out what would work. They tend to see ideas and think, "If this works, it could be great" while conservatives tend to think of such ideas, "if this doesn't work, it could be disastrous."
So when Democrats pass or try to pass a government program, they think of the possible good that could come from it, and feel very virtuous. When conservatives kill those programs, the Left imagines the loss of the theoretical good - and assume that conservatives are motivated by preventing good outcomes. (Thus, Krauthammer's, "conservatives think liberals are stupid, and liberals think conservatives are evil").
I have not said "Republicans," here, as I don't think most Republicans - especially those in office - are actually conservative, except in the sense of being conservative about what keeps them in power.
Is this sarcasm? I hope so because nobody should be this stupid. “Mean well”? Transing kids without parental consent/holding up sexual deviants as “normal”/giving aid & comfort to America’s enemies/ripping off the American taxpayer/funneling taxpayer $$ to their NGO’s/undermining a duly elected president not once but twice/bearing false witness against that duly elected president/destroying the black family as a unit & keeping them on the govt plantation/trying to strip Americans of their 2nd Amendment rights/falsly imprisoning their political enemies & committing lawfare against their political enemies?
The Democrat party is the enemy of freedom, individual rights, & the American people. It is & has been the party of slavery & Jim Crow.
I’ll see them in hell. “Feels very virtuous”? ‘Scuse me while I go puke.
I don’t think democrats are stupid; I think they’re evil. Satan’s minions.
Yes, seriously - they honestly believe themselves to be virtuous. The evil that is often done while working from an erroneous view of the world is astounding. If you want to understand that, you have to understand that very very few people see themselves as evil - they have narratives which proclaim that what they are doing in virtuous.
In this case, they have decided that groups who are not successful or are told that they cannot have what they say they want, are victims. As for “trans folk,” the idiot narrative is that people who call themselves trans are actually suffering from gender dysphoria and are likely to commit suicide if not allowed to transition. There is, of course, no evidence to support that idea, but it is the narrative. And since they view trans folk as perpetually at risk of suicide, and assume that anyone who shows behavior that is not sex-typical is trans.
This is why, as Krauthammer notes, conservatives think progressives are stupid - they ignore complexity and follow popular narratives over reality. But it doesn’t prevent them from seeing their actions as virtuous.
Happy Easter Michael.
Thankyou for putting into words what, I am sure, a few million of us have been struggling to verbalize for several years. It's hard to remain positive when there are so many negatives staring you in the face. I just keep recounting everything President Trump has accomplished so far and hope others are doing the same.
Weirdly Machiavelli also held that liberty could not survive among widespread corruption. Machiavelli is viewed badly because he is remembered more for his puff piece written for the Medici prince rather than for his much more extensive and thoughtful Discourses in which he revealed his real longing for republican government.
"legal manipulation of the Constitution was just beginning"
Hahaha - it started with Hamilton's argument for the First Bank of the United States while Washington was President and his faction, the Federalists were in power. Congress had no power to charter it under any clause of Article I, so he deemed it "necessary and proper". Jefferson who bitterly opposed the Bank would subsequently find it necessary and proper to make the Louisiana Purchase. Much as the Gerrymander dates to this same time frame. Politics has been a messy business from day one, and the Constitution barely holds it in check, then and now.
Thanks for the warning...There's a lot of funk going on all around I think. For some folks they're just looking for something to confirm all their negative prognostications, Then they get really PO'd when they don't come true. To divide a group is to prove yourself powerful, and what better way to do that than point out every negative thing you can come up with....and see? it's contagious! I try to keep myself level by reading all those great thinkers whose work has gone into this glorious republic and remembering that they recognized how awful humans can be, as well as courageous and good. Understanding through them how society and government works assures me that "this too shall pass" (if only temporarily). It helps keep the funk away. ~ Pollyanna
People pervert the plain meaning of written and spoken words because they see themselves as smarter and holier than anyone that has ever lived before them. They are too absorbed by their egos and have never learned how to consider or *logically* refute a point of view (with proveable data) outside their own thoughts. So they lash out instead and re-define words to fit their personal view of “how things should be”.
Imagine if George Washington had had to deal with Twitter / X ...
You're not wrong.
I believe that the Democrats do mean well, but are far more in love with the idea of doing good things than the hard work of figuring out what would work. They tend to see ideas and think, "If this works, it could be great" while conservatives tend to think of such ideas, "if this doesn't work, it could be disastrous."
So when Democrats pass or try to pass a government program, they think of the possible good that could come from it, and feel very virtuous. When conservatives kill those programs, the Left imagines the loss of the theoretical good - and assume that conservatives are motivated by preventing good outcomes. (Thus, Krauthammer's, "conservatives think liberals are stupid, and liberals think conservatives are evil").
I have not said "Republicans," here, as I don't think most Republicans - especially those in office - are actually conservative, except in the sense of being conservative about what keeps them in power.
“I believe that the Democrats do mean well…’
Is this sarcasm? I hope so because nobody should be this stupid. “Mean well”? Transing kids without parental consent/holding up sexual deviants as “normal”/giving aid & comfort to America’s enemies/ripping off the American taxpayer/funneling taxpayer $$ to their NGO’s/undermining a duly elected president not once but twice/bearing false witness against that duly elected president/destroying the black family as a unit & keeping them on the govt plantation/trying to strip Americans of their 2nd Amendment rights/falsly imprisoning their political enemies & committing lawfare against their political enemies?
The Democrat party is the enemy of freedom, individual rights, & the American people. It is & has been the party of slavery & Jim Crow.
I’ll see them in hell. “Feels very virtuous”? ‘Scuse me while I go puke.
I don’t think democrats are stupid; I think they’re evil. Satan’s minions.
They’re the absolute scum of the earth.
Yes, seriously - they honestly believe themselves to be virtuous. The evil that is often done while working from an erroneous view of the world is astounding. If you want to understand that, you have to understand that very very few people see themselves as evil - they have narratives which proclaim that what they are doing in virtuous.
In this case, they have decided that groups who are not successful or are told that they cannot have what they say they want, are victims. As for “trans folk,” the idiot narrative is that people who call themselves trans are actually suffering from gender dysphoria and are likely to commit suicide if not allowed to transition. There is, of course, no evidence to support that idea, but it is the narrative. And since they view trans folk as perpetually at risk of suicide, and assume that anyone who shows behavior that is not sex-typical is trans.
This is why, as Krauthammer notes, conservatives think progressives are stupid - they ignore complexity and follow popular narratives over reality. But it doesn’t prevent them from seeing their actions as virtuous.