Progressive means changing things. Trying something new. Cutting edge. In music it means really going for it, pushing the envelope. King Crimson. In politics it means really attempting to ameliorate some of society's flaws and errors and systematic prejudice and oppression.
Conservatism is a basic psychological fact. Things can't change that much, that quickly, without people getting uncomfortable. Lots of adults were deeply challenged by the 60's, when they wanted to come home from the war and just live a regular life, recover from the trauma of war.
Progressivism is a basic psychological fact. We want to change things to improve them. Young people imagine they can run things in a more positive way.
What would happen if I suddenly became president? All my platforms (tolerance, multiculturalism, environmentalism, justice, public health) and programs and leadership would lead to a lot of change. Perhaps some of the things would not mesh together. There are always unintended consequences to every course of action.
People fear communism, what they they didn't like was dictatorships. Turns out there are probably just as many right wing dictators. It's really the fear that someone will take over, along the lines they don't want. To permanently lose the election.
Society is going to get gentler and kinder. It's in our own best interest to take care of people, suffering people let loose in the world cause lots of trouble. But when things get better, the government should shrink and not increase. I might want big government to tackle some issues, but I don't want it forever. It just seems to be what is needed.
It is important to take responsibility for your life. In systems theory there are all kinds of systems that are causal factors. Republican rhetoric likes to focus on personal responsibility. That's great, apply it to the congressmen and military too. I'm all for lack of hypocrisy and seeing the larger picture.
Meanwhile policy and words are murder. Governors squashed greater access to health care out of spite, and that let so many people die. Republicans have to be "pro-life" because they are so anti-life, it's a manic reparation.
The hypocrisy and murder party, that loves creationism, secretly embraces a Mad Max/Waterworld survival of the fittest.
As far as I can tell, the swing for far right to centrist and far right has been going on forever here.
The racists who hated Obama, that led to the swing that led to tRump, will hopefully lead to a swing towards the center that we haven't seen since Roosevelt.
We need to figure out how to game kindness, togetherness, large mindedness that fosters taking care of everyone, and personal responsibility.
The internet, a greater spread of information, is helping.
When you give monkeys a medium treat, they like it, eat it. If you give one monkey a medium treat, and another a special treat, the monkey throws the treat they would usually like at the giver, because they want the special treat. This is a basic behavior aspect of mammals. We are the third chimp.
Real political dialogue is not ironic. Republicans that blame liberal thinking for the problems in society are only seeing a political reality and not THE REALITY. When Pence said he was offended at LGBTQ offense, was just acting like a rodeo clown (no offense to those guys). You can't claim you care about plants feelings, as an argument against vegetarian/veganism, when meat takes up so much more plants. It's an insincere argument because they don't care. That basically is the Republican argument: turn kindness towards others on itself. Nice try jackass.
The political philosophy that we need smaller government is a valid theory. Even saying it shouldn't be federal but state and local is a valid theory. But the way they do it. It's like claiming to be Christian when there's not a Christian bone in your body. I get queasy disillusioning people. There is a sense in which I am very much not like my ideals. I am capable of point a finger at me, admitting my faults.
They say if you don't love America, then leave it. Like patriotism is a fawning all positive love affair. That's not realistic.
People say, we should only love our citizens. We can't even do that, we don't have anything for others. I disagree. We need to open our hearts, not find reasons to close them down. That is just spiteful. That Chris Rock line from a movie, "God Bless America, and nobody else."
I can't wait till Warren is president and all those conservatives start pointing out her contradictions. I can't wait.
Republicans are like the equivocators of the Gunpowder plot. Feeling oppressed, they feel entitled to lie, and then speak the truth in their head and to God.
My biggest fear is that tRump, who has shown he can do anything, normal ethical standards or ethical qualms don't matter, might start a war to get himself re-elected. He's the king of distraction. That would be some heinous shit. His ability to dupe the American public could be tested, though, there is also a strong strain of America waking up from it's enabling his shenanigans.
Time to stop being punked, bamboozled by this flim flam man.
Conservatism is a basic psychological fact. Things can't change that much, that quickly, without people getting uncomfortable. Lots of adults were deeply challenged by the 60's, when they wanted to come home from the war and just live a regular life, recover from the trauma of war.
Progressivism is a basic psychological fact. We want to change things to improve them. Young people imagine they can run things in a more positive way.
What would happen if I suddenly became president? All my platforms (tolerance, multiculturalism, environmentalism, justice, public health) and programs and leadership would lead to a lot of change. Perhaps some of the things would not mesh together. There are always unintended consequences to every course of action.
People fear communism, what they they didn't like was dictatorships. Turns out there are probably just as many right wing dictators. It's really the fear that someone will take over, along the lines they don't want. To permanently lose the election.
Society is going to get gentler and kinder. It's in our own best interest to take care of people, suffering people let loose in the world cause lots of trouble. But when things get better, the government should shrink and not increase. I might want big government to tackle some issues, but I don't want it forever. It just seems to be what is needed.
It is important to take responsibility for your life. In systems theory there are all kinds of systems that are causal factors. Republican rhetoric likes to focus on personal responsibility. That's great, apply it to the congressmen and military too. I'm all for lack of hypocrisy and seeing the larger picture.
Meanwhile policy and words are murder. Governors squashed greater access to health care out of spite, and that let so many people die. Republicans have to be "pro-life" because they are so anti-life, it's a manic reparation.
The hypocrisy and murder party, that loves creationism, secretly embraces a Mad Max/Waterworld survival of the fittest.
As far as I can tell, the swing for far right to centrist and far right has been going on forever here.
The racists who hated Obama, that led to the swing that led to tRump, will hopefully lead to a swing towards the center that we haven't seen since Roosevelt.
We need to figure out how to game kindness, togetherness, large mindedness that fosters taking care of everyone, and personal responsibility.
The internet, a greater spread of information, is helping.
When you give monkeys a medium treat, they like it, eat it. If you give one monkey a medium treat, and another a special treat, the monkey throws the treat they would usually like at the giver, because they want the special treat. This is a basic behavior aspect of mammals. We are the third chimp.
Real political dialogue is not ironic. Republicans that blame liberal thinking for the problems in society are only seeing a political reality and not THE REALITY. When Pence said he was offended at LGBTQ offense, was just acting like a rodeo clown (no offense to those guys). You can't claim you care about plants feelings, as an argument against vegetarian/veganism, when meat takes up so much more plants. It's an insincere argument because they don't care. That basically is the Republican argument: turn kindness towards others on itself. Nice try jackass.
The political philosophy that we need smaller government is a valid theory. Even saying it shouldn't be federal but state and local is a valid theory. But the way they do it. It's like claiming to be Christian when there's not a Christian bone in your body. I get queasy disillusioning people. There is a sense in which I am very much not like my ideals. I am capable of point a finger at me, admitting my faults.
They say if you don't love America, then leave it. Like patriotism is a fawning all positive love affair. That's not realistic.
People say, we should only love our citizens. We can't even do that, we don't have anything for others. I disagree. We need to open our hearts, not find reasons to close them down. That is just spiteful. That Chris Rock line from a movie, "God Bless America, and nobody else."
I can't wait till Warren is president and all those conservatives start pointing out her contradictions. I can't wait.
Republicans are like the equivocators of the Gunpowder plot. Feeling oppressed, they feel entitled to lie, and then speak the truth in their head and to God.
My biggest fear is that tRump, who has shown he can do anything, normal ethical standards or ethical qualms don't matter, might start a war to get himself re-elected. He's the king of distraction. That would be some heinous shit. His ability to dupe the American public could be tested, though, there is also a strong strain of America waking up from it's enabling his shenanigans.
Time to stop being punked, bamboozled by this flim flam man.
