Popdose: Political Culture: Seeing the Best (And Worst) in One Another
Michial
· 1 month ago
I love this post, Jon. Thanks for doing your part in trying to raise the level of discourse in American politics.
autodidact
· 1 month ago
You all can argue about conservative and liberal positions as you please. I don't want to be identified with the power elites in either group (the people who seem to define what is "conservative" or "liberal" these days), and what's worse, those same power elites do not represent the grass roots of any major segment of American society, as far as I can tell. Quite simply, we are all up a divisive philosophical creek without a representative paddle. That's the biggest problem we face. Politics was awfully nasty at the time of this country's founding. That is survivable. The capture of the government by forces which care not for the will or well-being of a majority or even 2/3 of the people -- that is not survivable, IMO.
Plus, as a Christian, I must declare that Jesus could not identify with what is called liberal or conservative these days. There are many false accusations and false stereotypes being pasted onto both sides, which obviously He would also oppose, in the name of truth. Then again, today his religious views would be called impossibly narrow (there is one path to salvation, and one only) and his moral principles impractically strict and intolerant. (No divorce? Only one sex partner??? America is not ready to swallow that. Nor are the gays who are getting married -- for the time being -- in my state.) Moral sickness is bipartisan and is not restricted to one philosophical orientation. The apostle Paul wrote in one of his letters, "the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so." Unfortunately, that appears to me to be where both camps are right now. But who will stand up for the common man? Even what "liberals" (the leadership labeled as such) are proposing will bring us all to ruin, because it is based on phony promises and bad math. It looks like the "conservatives" would ruin us, too, by a slightly different path.
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Plus, as a Christian, I must declare that Jesus could not identify with what is called liberal or conservative these days. There are many false accusations and false stereotypes being pasted onto both sides, which obviously He would also oppose, in the name of truth. Then again, today his religious views would be called impossibly narrow (there is one path to salvation, and one only) and his moral principles impractically strict and intolerant. (No divorce? Only one sex partner??? America is not ready to swallow that. Nor are the gays who are getting married -- for the time being -- in my state.) Moral sickness is bipartisan and is not restricted to one philosophical orientation. The apostle Paul wrote in one of his letters, "the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so." Unfortunately, that appears to me to be where both camps are right now. But who will stand up for the common man? Even what "liberals" (the leadership labeled as such) are proposing will bring us all to ruin, because it is based on phony promises and bad math. It looks like the "conservatives" would ruin us, too, by a slightly different path.