Mikeoxenormous
Diamond Member
- Banned
- #21
So you dont "feel" that you are better than some camel jockey in the middle east, who would put a knife in your back and laugh at it, as doing the will of Allah?LOL Same old same old. Dose bad democrats day sure be bad. When I come back to this site I feel like it is yesterday and yesterday and yesterday. No growth. Groundhog day on another level. Lots of name calling and irrelevant nonsense. Timothy Snyder in book quoted below does a great job of covering America today. The quote hits home.
"The president [Trump] is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, 'although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,' wrote Orwell, tends to be 'uninterested in what happens in the real world.' Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism 'has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.' A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better." Timothy Snyder 'On Tyranny'
On Tyranny
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of ...www.goodreads.com