"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." Dom Helder Camara
LOL That's just too funny. I wanted to add to that. 'The rich are bailed out, the poor thrown out.'
"My own view is that the American conservative movement's embrace or defense of torture was the moment its intellectual collapse became irrecoverable. When conservatism abandoned core values of American decency in favor of pure force, exemplified by torture techniques designed by Communists and Nazis, then it ceased to be conservative in the sense that Burke or Hayek or Oakeshott or Kirk would begin to understand. And watching the intellectual dishonesty of the right on this issue in the last few years has been a watershed for me. It has been, in my judgment, one long, awful surrender of truth to power. Take a moment with me to review what one leading light of the Republican blogosphere wrote when the Abu Ghraib scandal first hit the news in the spring of 2004." Andrew Sullivan
You're obviously a communist.
Words have such power in the minds of children. At one time it was witches or devils, bad spirits that managed the fate of people. Then it became outsiders, when they weren't conquered, they were feared and condemned. Germs killed the witches in much of the world. But communists live on as the bogeyman under the bed, meanwhile a communist country owns our debt, and Americans buy more things made in China. It could be that the OP was posted on a PC made in a Communist country. Fifty six thousand on my generation died in a useless jungle war, and today you can wear clothing made in Nam. Semper fi stickers appear on Japanese cars, faithful to whom. I once saw an Iwo Jima sun-shield on the back of a Suzuki. The only sane reaction is mild wonder. Meanwhile the enemy for our congress is the elderly and the poor, and conservative republicans online argue for the rich and oppose food support for young children. Christians today justify greed with bible interpretations and Trump has risen to a contender over an absurdity. And so it goes....
"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness." Blaise Pascal
LOL That's just too funny. I wanted to add to that. 'The rich are bailed out, the poor thrown out.'
"My own view is that the American conservative movement's embrace or defense of torture was the moment its intellectual collapse became irrecoverable. When conservatism abandoned core values of American decency in favor of pure force, exemplified by torture techniques designed by Communists and Nazis, then it ceased to be conservative in the sense that Burke or Hayek or Oakeshott or Kirk would begin to understand. And watching the intellectual dishonesty of the right on this issue in the last few years has been a watershed for me. It has been, in my judgment, one long, awful surrender of truth to power. Take a moment with me to review what one leading light of the Republican blogosphere wrote when the Abu Ghraib scandal first hit the news in the spring of 2004." Andrew Sullivan
