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How is it any improvement to replace crony national-socialism with crony international-capitalism!? Neither alternative is either socialistic or capitalistic, but both are corrupt cronyism. How do we restore common decency? Not by replacing one set of thugs with another. Almost all opinion leaders, media bullet heads, and educators seem simply to serve either one kind of gangsterism or another. Where are the ideas for how to check and limit cronyism? That's the problem!
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Say Republicans win: who was the last Republican President who was worth his salt? In very large part, "Bush the border-non-enforcer and illegal appeaser" did as much as anyone to idiot-ize our electorate. I know, towards the last, he did a mite. Apart from that, I'd say he did way too little, way too late. Now, here we are, in a box surrounded by idiots --- being hedged, plucked, and farmed by cronies to the left and cronies to the right. Helping one gang of cronies at the expense of the other does nothing to get us out of this box! Especially since the hedgers have been playing us for a double game for a long time. What would Mitt or Newt do to put all cronies under restraint? That's what I want to know, but that's what we won't hear. Why? Because if they scare the crony money, they have little chance in a system now contrived so that money talks loudest. Frankly, given how dumbed down our electorate has become, I don't see much hope. Not unless some billionaire has an epiphany and decides to use his money for once to do the right thing. Which would be to get behind a candidate who wants to restore the ideal of America.
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How is it any improvement to replace crony national-socialism with crony international-capitalism!? Neither alternative is either socialistic or capitalistic, but both are corrupt cronyism. How do we restore common decency? Not by replacing one set of thugs with another. Almost all opinion leaders, media bullet heads, and educators seem simply to serve either one kind of gangsterism or another. Where are the ideas for how to check and limit cronyism? That's the problem!
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Say Republicans win: who was the last Republican President who was worth his salt? In very large part, "Bush the border-non-enforcer and illegal appeaser" did as much as anyone to idiot-ize our electorate. I know, towards the last, he did a mite. Apart from that, I'd say he did way too little, way too late. Now, here we are, in a box surrounded by idiots --- being hedged, plucked, and farmed by cronies to the left and cronies to the right. Helping one gang of cronies at the expense of the other does nothing to get us out of this box! Especially since the hedgers have been playing us for a double game for a long time. What would Mitt or Newt do to put all cronies under restraint? That's what I want to know, but that's what we won't hear. Why? Because if they scare the crony money, they have little chance in a system now contrived so that money talks loudest. Frankly, given how dumbed down our electorate has become, I don't see much hope. Not unless some billionaire has an epiphany and decides to use his money for once to do the right thing. Which would be to get behind a candidate who wants to restore the ideal of America.
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Fine article. Having irrationally lost rational faith in any higher source of morality, many desperately seek to find morality not in responsible individuals, but in the collective will that is availed expression in the marketplace. The same people who tend to say you cannot legislate morality are often the ones who believe morality is merely a triviality. For them, that which finds expression in the market is moral. Problem is, that which finds expression in the market often is centrally contrived and regulated by government in cahoots with those who own or invest deeply in government. When these people say morality cannot be legislated, they often mean to say, We own you, so abandon hope. Were the market truly an expression of local interests, rather than centrally contrived interests, innate moral empathies would hold more sway. But localism has shrunk puny next to the centralizing Leviathan. The Departments of misEducation, crony choking and hedging of Energy, and Commerce for the well connected cannibals ensures that localism, and therefore moral empathy, will remain chained. Samuel Adams foresaw aspects of this when he wrote late in his life to the well known secular humanist who otherwise often displayed common sense: Thomas Paine.
As an Idealist, I would say that truth is transcendent to the thoughts and experiences of both Plato and Aristotle. Substantive experience is availed its significance in respect of the mind of God (or field of consciousness). As an Empiricist, I would say that practical experience (the Word made flesh) frames the logos for our communication. I don't see a simple, Bright Line between the subjective ideal and the practical objective, since it's with the practical that we apprehend and communicate our evolving interests and ideals. It's not principles-in-themselves that explicate higher truth, but our expression of principles in respect of an experiential, substantive Context, as it unfolds in concert with the participation of each perspective of consciousness. In part, that's why representative democracy is not a suitable form of governance for many cultures, i.e., the ones that fail to balance their ideals with their markets. Moreover, that's why representative democracy may not much longer remain viable for America. Having lost sense of basis for higher ideals and values, a gathering majority of Americans have lost faith except in the vulgar market. Conservatives who have unbalanced and confused their ideals will not long preserve America based only on faith in the material market. What could be more confused and unbalancing than to sacrifice one's entire being to an ideal of having no ideal apart from the vulgar market? What could avail a faster slide to despotism than to advocate free-market trading with despots?
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