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Cartoon: Trump's Bone Spurs Acting Up Again
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Cartoon: Anti-Maskers
Great Anti-Masker Cartoon
Did Trump's Coronavirus Action, Inaction And Ineptitude Kill 91,724 People Needlessly?
"Compendium Of Best Pax Posts About The Pandemic And Trump's Grotesque Mismanagement"
"Compendium Of Best Pax Posts About The Pandemic And Trump's Grotesque Mismanagement"
Fox News: The Most Intriguing Twist Of Fate You'll Hear About Today
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Cartoon: Coronavirus Meets Roger Stone
Roger Stone: Members Of Trump's Inner Circle Are Unusually Likely To Be Convicted Felons
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Cartoon: Only One Card In Trump's Deck. Give Me A "V." Give Me An "I." Give Me A "C."
"Did Trump's Coronavirus Action, Inaction And Ineptitude Kill 91,724 People Needlessly?"
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Cartoon: "It's No Secret He's Got A Secret... An Incriminating Secret"
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Jesus Christ! Trump Administration Pushing To Block New Money For Testing, Tracing And CDC
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Abortion As A Single Issue Voting Litmus
Alan: My commentary (immediately below) is in response to a Patheos article by David Armstrong linked at the bottom of this post.
Mr. Armstrong's article is titled: "15 Reasons Why Trump Wins Again In November."
"Abortion"
Taking a page from Trump's own playbook, I will double down and posit that the proscription of abortion in these United States will result in a HIGHER abortion rate. So if you want per capita abortion to increase, subscribe to Mr. Armstrong's "single issue" decision-making come November. But remember. If you do decide to cast your ballot on the sole basis of abortion, Aquinas (the foremost Doctor of the Church... and a fellow who did not consider abortion to be "homicide" until after the first trimester) was emphatically against "loss of proportion and perspective."https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/st-thomas-aquinas-c-1225-1274"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness Nor Uplift In Trump's America
"15 Reasons Why Trump Wins Again In November"
Dave Armstrong
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Dear God, Make "The Body Snatchers" Science Fiction Again
"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness Nor Uplift In Trump's America"
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Viktor Frankl: How Music, Nature, and Our Love for Each Other Give Meaning to Our Lives
Viktor Frankl on How Music, Nature, and Our Love for Each Other Succor Our Survival and Give Meaning to Our Lives
Maria Popova, "Brain Pickings"
Who can weigh the ballast of another’s woe, or another’s love? We live — with our woes and our loves, with our tremendous capacity for beauty and our tremendous capacity for suffering — counterbalancing the weight of existence with the irrepressible force of living. The question, always, is what feeds the force and hulls the ballast.
Viktor Frankl (March 26, 1905–September 2, 1997), having lost his mother, his father, and his brother to our civilization’s most colossal moral failure yet, having barely survived himself, Frankl takes up the question of what makes life not only survivable but worthy of living in what now lives as Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything (public library) — a slim, powerful set of lectures he delivered a mere eleven months after the Holocaust, just as he was completing the manuscript of the classic Man’s Search for Meaning.
Art from Trees at Night by Art Young, 1926. (Available as a print.)
Tucked into Frankl’s immensely insightful meditations on moving beyond optimism and pessimism to find the deepest source of meaning is a passage of great subtlety and great splendor — a portal to a truth so elemental that it might appear trite if stated merely as an abstract truism, but one which rises titanic and majestic from the crucible of this human being’s unfathomable lived experience.
In a sublime sidewise testament to the singular power of music, which some of humanity’s vastest minds have so memorably extolled, Frankl writes:
It is not only through our actions that we can give life meaning — insofar as we can answer life’s specific questions responsibly — we can fulfill the demands of existence not only as active agents but also as loving human beings: in our loving dedication to the beautiful, the great, the good. Should I perhaps try to explain for you with some hackneyed phrase how and why experiencing beauty can make life meaningful? I prefer to confine myself to the following thought experiment: imagine that you are sitting in a concert hall and listening to your favorite symphony, and your favorite bars of the symphony resound in your ears, and you are so moved by the music that it sends shivers down your spine; and now imagine that it would be possible (something that is psychologically so impossible) for someone to ask you in this moment whether your life has meaning. I believe you would agree with me if I declared that in this case you would only be able to give one answer, and it would go something like: “It would have been worth it to have lived for this moment alone!”
It is not only through our actions that we can give life meaning — insofar as we can answer life’s specific questions responsibly — we can fulfill the demands of existence not only as active agents but also as loving human beings: in our loving dedication to the beautiful, the great, the good. Should I perhaps try to explain for you with some hackneyed phrase how and why experiencing beauty can make life meaningful? I prefer to confine myself to the following thought experiment: imagine that you are sitting in a concert hall and listening to your favorite symphony, and your favorite bars of the symphony resound in your ears, and you are so moved by the music that it sends shivers down your spine; and now imagine that it would be possible (something that is psychologically so impossible) for someone to ask you in this moment whether your life has meaning. I believe you would agree with me if I declared that in this case you would only be able to give one answer, and it would go something like: “It would have been worth it to have lived for this moment alone!”
Viktor Frankl
More than a century after Mary Shelley celebrated nature as a lifeline to sanity in considering what makes life worth living in a world savaged by a deadly pandemic, and decades before Tennessee Williams reflected as he approached his own death that “we live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love… love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend,” Frankl adds:
Those who experience, not the arts, but nature, may have a similar response, and also those who experience another human being. Do we not know the feeling that overtakes us when we are in the presence of a particular person and, roughly translates as, The fact that this person exists in the world at all, this alone makes this world, and a life in it, meaningful.
Art from Trees at Night by Art Young, 1926. (Available as a print.)
In how we suffer and how we love, Frankl concludes, is the measure of who and what we are:
How human beings deal with the limitation of their possibilities regarding how it affects their actions and their ability to love, how they behave under these restrictions — the way in which they accept their suffering under such restrictions — in all of this they still remain capable of fulfilling human values.
So, how we deal with difficulties truly shows who we are.
Yes to Life is a slender, spectacular read in its totality. Complement this fragment with Borges on turning trauma misfortune, and humiliation into raw material for art and Whitman, shortly after his paralytic stroke, on what makes life worth living, then revisit Frankl on humor as a lifeline to survival.
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Two Friends From My Hometown: Frederick Douglass And Susan B. Anthony
Two Friends: A Lovely Illustrated Celebration of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony’s Entwined Paths as Pioneers of Freedom, Justice, and Equality
Maria Popova, "Brain Pickings"
“How can we use each other’s differences in our common battles for a livable future?” Audre Lorde asked while traveling in a divided world a generation after the landmark Universal Declaration of Human Rights declared that “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.” Another generation earlier — an interval imperceptible on the timescales of our evolutionary history — these rights were reserved for only one class of human family members: white men.
That a civilization was able to broaden the legal aperture of civic agency and human dignity so dramatically in so short a time was the triumph of two parallel and consanguine movements: women’s suffrage and abolition, propelled by a small, unrelenting tribe of pioneers in the middle of the nineteenth century. The most active and ardent of them were women — women like Susan B. Anthony and Julia Ward Howe, who spoke and wrote and rallied unrelentingly for human rights and civic agency; women like astronomer and abolitionist Maria Mitchell, who swung open the gates to women’s education in science and whose lovely lifelong friendship with Frederick Douglass was an honor to both; women who, in the aftermath of the Civil War, diverted their suffrage efforts from securing the vote for themselves to securing the vote for African Americans — parallel efforts for which Margaret Fuller had furnished the catalytic spark with her insistence that “while any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.” (In a disquieting recompense for these women’s efforts, the right to vote was extended to black men half a century before it was extended to women of any ethnicity.)
In the city of Rochester in upstate New York there stands — or, rather, sits — a bronze sculpture depicting two of these courageous champions of freedom having tea: Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) and Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), whose neighboring braveries blossomed into a real friendship after both moved to Rochester around the same time in their late twenties. It was in Rochester that Anthony voted in a presidential election, well aware she was going to be arrested for it; it was in Rochester that Douglass launched his epoch-making abolitionist newspaper (which he titled the North Star, in homage to the central role of astronomy in the Underground Railroad).
Inspired by the sculpture and the beautiful camaraderie behind it, Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass (public library) by Dean Robbins, illustrated by Selina Alko and Sean Qualls, tells the story of these two pioneering lives entwined in friendship through an imaginary evening of tea and cake.
We see each of them transcend the givens of their condition: Susan, excluded from formal education on account of her gender, educates herself in the founding ideals of her country and is galled by the hypocrisy of proclaiming the rights to live free and to vote, but denying those rights to more than half; Frederick, enslaved, teaches himself to read and write, then learns about the same ideals and is galled by the same hypocrisy of exclusion.
We see Frederick clad in his “gentleman’s jacket, vest, and tie,” and Susan in “a kind of pants called ‘bloomers,'” which she prefers over the cumbersome skirts that make it “hard to get things done.”
Both of them teach themselves to give speeches on justice and equality, both of them deliver those speeches before audiences to the applause of some and the vocal dismay of others, until the two eventually meet in Rochester and promise “to help each other, so one day all people could have rights.”
And so they do: We see them discuss their ideas and their plans over tea and cake and warm conspiratorial smiles.
So many speeches to give.
So many articles to write.
So many minds to change.
Couple Two Friends with a wondrous celebration of the rebels who won women political power, illustrated by the incomparable Maira Kalman, then savor other picture-book biographies of cultural heroes, pioneers, and visionaries: John Lewis, Keith Haring, Wangari Maathai, Maria Mitchell, Ada Lovelace, Louise Bourgeois, E.E. Cummings, Jane Goodall, Jane Jacobs, Frida Kahlo, Louis Braille, Pablo Neruda, Albert Einstein, Muddy Waters, and Nellie Bly.
John Lewis On Love, Forgiveness, And The Seedbed Of Personal Strength
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John Lewis On Love, Forgiveness, And The Seedbed Of Personal Strength
John Lewis On Love, Forgiveness, And The Seedbed Of Personal Strength
Maria Popova, "Brain Pickings"
“We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other’s only hope,” James Baldwin told Margaret Mead in their historic conversation about forgiveness. “To forgive is to assume a larger identity than the person who was first hurt,” poet and philosopher David Whyte observed a generation later in considering the measure of maturity — an observation as astute on the scale of individuals as it is on the scale of society. How few of us are capable of such largeness when contracted by hurt, when the clench of injustice has tightened our own fists. And yet in the conscious choice to unclench our hearts and our hands is not only the measure of our courage and our strength, not only the wellspring of compassion for others, but the wellspring of compassion for ourselves and the supreme triumph of personhood. “As we develop love, appreciation, and forgiveness for others over time,” Anne Lamott wrote as she contemplated the relationship between brokenness and joy, “we may accidentally develop those things toward ourselves, too.”
Once in a generation, if we are lucky, someone comes about who in every aspect of their being models for us how to do that, how to be that — how to place love at the center, the center that holds solid as all around it breaks, the solid place that becomes the fort of what is unbreakable in us and the fulcrum of change.
John Lewis
Among those rare, miraculous few was John Lewis (February 21, 1940–July 17, 2020), who began his life by preaching to the chickens at his parents’ farm in southern Alabama and went on to teach a nation, a world how to step into that rare courage, that countercultural act of resistance in refusing to stop loving this broken, beautiful world. In every fiber of his being, he upheld that stubborn, splendid refusal as the crucible of justice, of progress, of all that is harmonious and human in us.
If Lewis’s legacy is to be summed up in a succinct way, if his immense and enduring gift to the generations is to be bowed with a single ribbon, it would be these passages from his 2012 memoir Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change (public library):
Our actions entrench the power of the light on this planet. Every positive thought we pass between us makes room for more light. And if we do more than think, then our actions clear the path for even more light. That is why forgiveness and compassion must become more important principles in public life.
A century after Tolstoy wrote to Gandhi that “love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills” in their extraordinary forgotten correspondence about why we hurt each other and how to stop, Lewis writes:
Anchor the eternity of love in your own soul and embed this planet with goodness. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal truth, and follow its dictates. Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge. Release all bitterness. Hold only love, only peace in your heart, knowing that the battle of good to overcome evil is already won. Choose confrontation wisely, but when it is your time don’t be afraid to stand up, speak up, and speak out against injustice. And if you follow your truth down the road to peace and the affirmation of love, if you shine like a beacon for all to see, then the poetry of all the great dreamers and philosophers is yours to manifest in a nation, a world community, and a Beloved Community that is finally at peace with itself.
Complement with the young poet Marissa Davis’s stunning love letter to the dual courage of facing a broken reality while refusing to cease cherishing this beautiful world, then revisit this lovely picture-book about the childhood experience that shaped Lewis’s character and courage.
HT Morley
“Do not get lost in a sea of despair,” Lewis tweeted almost exactly a year before his death. “Do not become bitter or hostile. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. We will find a way to make a way out of no way.”
Civil Rights Champion John Lewis' Obituary
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"The Rich Aren't Just Grabbing A Bigger Slice Of The Income Pie.
They're Taking It All"
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Portland Police Baffled By Naked Protester
Watch: "Naked Athena" Faces Down Federal Cops at Portland Protest — and They Back Down
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If Trump Voters Listened To Reason, They Wouldn't Be Trump Voters
Video: "If You Don't Think Trump And Trumpistas Are Hypocritical, Dishonest And Stupid, You Will!"
"The Divinity Of Donald Trump"
VideoThe Daily Show"A Video Collage Of Trump's Arrogance: If You Are Even Vestigially Normal, You Will Sicken"
"The Divinity Of Donald Trump"
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The Daily Show
"A Video Collage Of Trump's Arrogance: If You Are Even Vestigially Normal, You Will Sicken""The Daily Show": Video Lets Trump Cultists Reveal Their Own Stupidity And Obsequious Boot-Licking
Video Of Trump Mocking Murder Victim For Crying Out, "I Can't Breathe"
"Jaw-Dropping Stupidity: 3 Short Videos That Will Change Your View Of American Politics Forever"
"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness Nor Uplift In Trump's America"
A Critical Mass Of American "Conservatives" Are Stupid, Ignorant, Hateful And Cruel
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-critical-mass-of-american.html
Christianity: A Compendium Of "What Went Wrong" And Current Worship Of The Wrongness
"George Carlin Describes America's Dumbf*ck Quandary"
Traitor Trump: Read The Word-For-Word Legal Definition Of Treason
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/06/traitor-trump-read-word-for-word-legal.html"Trump Is A Traitor By Virtue Of Normalizing Falsehood And Teaching Americans To Do The Same"
https://paxonbothhouses.
A Confession: I'm Starting To Write Off Stupid People As Incorrigible
"The Exquisite Stupidity Of Trump Supporters"
"The Exquisite Stupidity Of Trump Supporters"
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Trump Wants To Know: "What's The Difference Between A Garbanzo Bean And A Chickpea?"
"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness Nor Uplift In Trump's America"
A Critical Mass Of American "Conservatives" Are Stupid, Ignorant, Hateful And Cruel
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-critical-mass-of-american.html
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"George Carlin Describes America's Dumbf*ck Quandary"
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"Rugged Individualism" Has Finally Converged With Petty Self-Indulgence To "Sign Off" On...
Alan: By and large, Americans are no longer responsible citizens.
We are "consumer units" re-made in the image of self-seeking captitalism.
Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts About Stupidity, Ignorance, Denial and Abject Gullibility https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-about.html
"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness Nor Uplift In Trump's America"https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/their-is-neither-nobility-nor-kindness.html
Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts About Stupidity, Ignorance, Denial and Abject Gullibility https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-about.html
"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness Nor Uplift In Trump's America"https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/their-is-neither-nobility-nor-kindness.html
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COVID 19 And Other Conspiracy Theories Probed By John Oliver
COVID 19 And Other Conspiracies Theories Probed By John Oliver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_eHBZLM6U
Alan: Given enough time, I could enumerate tens of thousands of discoveries and tens of thousands of events that have changed the world - in the view of most people, for the better.
But you cannot name a single conspiracy theory that has changed the world for the better.
This is because conspiracy theories are not designed to change the world, but rather to assuage conspiracists' fears and anxieties about the world.
John Oliver's 20 minute probe of conspiracism is enlightening.
(One can argue that Trump was elected due to the appeal of his foundational conspiracy theory that Obama was born in Kenya and was therefore ineligible for the U.S. presidency. Furthermore, it is pellucidly clear that right-wing politicians --- and right-wing politics (particularly those that depend on falsehood for political advancement) --- are the chief beneficiaries of conspiratorial thinking.)
Daniel Webster Prompts A Review Of Conspiracism And Its Destructive Role In American Politics
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¿Cuál fue el mayor secreto que descubriste solo después de que alguien falleciera?
En 2003, mi madre murió a la edad que yo pensaba era 73. Siendo una hija única, sobre su fallecimiento tuve que hacerme cargo de sus asuntos personales. Mi padrastro ya se había ido para este tiempo. Mi corazón estaba tan roto pero yo sabía que necesitaba manejar sus asuntos como un negocio para así poder acabar con ello. Yo solo tenía una cierta cantidad de tiempo para ocuparme de todo antes de tener que volar de vuelta a Vegas.
Mientras limpiaba los artículos de mi madre, estaba seriamente sorprendida de descubrir que su cumpleaños, fecha de nacimiento, número de seguro social, e incluso su nombre eran diferentes de lo que yo creía mientras crecí. Me di cuenta entonces que había muchas cosas que nunca supe de mi madre.
Mientras limpiaba sus armarios y separaba todas las cosas que irían a la familia y todas las cosas que irían al centro de donaciones, encontré los siguientes artículos:
- Un revólver de calibre 22 con mango de perla (cargado) debajo del colchón del lado de la cama donde ella dormía. Eso voló mi cabeza! Un revólver con mango de perla de verdad!
- En el armario de su habitación, encontré una escopeta calibre 12 y una pistola calibre 45 en la gaveta superior. Cargada.
- En la habitación extra encontré 2 rifles, una era una Winchester. Ambas tenían municiones en ellas!
- Entre la cortina y la pared en la sala de estar cerca de la puerta delantera, era una cosa pesada de bastón / porra policial al alcance de la mano. (No tenía idea qué era, tenía que preguntarle a mi esposo).
- En la cocina, encima de uno de los gabinetes había una pesada cuchilla de carnicero
- Montones de municiones en varios cajones
- Un cuchillo enorme entre el inodoro y la tina de baño, cerca del émbolo
- Y bastante de un dinero escondido en varios lugares
Cuando la familia de tías, tíos y primos lejanos viajaron a Delaware para el funeral, yo tenía un montón de preguntas que hacerles, pero muchas de las preguntas permanecieron sin responder. La única cosa que se me dijo (lo cual ya sabía) es que muchas personas negras migraron del sur al norte de los estados porque las condiciones ahí eran a menudo mejores. Muchas personas terminaron reinventándose a lo largo del camino. Mi tío bromeó que mi madre pudo haber sido parte de la Mafia Negra. Yo me reí. Un poco.
Porque el área en Delaware donde mi madre vivía era un área no tan genial, literalmente en el otro lado de la vía (no es un chiste) recuerdo haberle preguntado a mi mamá si alguna vez tenía miedo de vivir sola; que alguien viniera e irrumpiera una noche mientras ella dormía. Lo que mi mamá dijo fue, "Cariño, no te preocupes por tu mamá! Si alguien irrumpiera aquí, saldrían mucho, mucho más rápido… si tienen la oportunidad!" Wow. Mi madre era una guerrera! Hay tantas cosas sobre ella que supongo nunca sabré. Quizás eso es algo bueno. No estoy segura.
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Cupie Doll And Pederast Wannabe: "If She Wasn't My Daughter, Perhaps I'd Be Dating Her"
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Christianity: A Compendium Of "What Went Wrong" And Current Worship Of The Wrongness
"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness Nor Uplift In Trump's America"
A Critical Mass Of American "Conservatives" Are Stupid, Ignorant, Hateful And Cruel
"George Carlin Describes America's Dumbf*ck Quandary"
"George Carlin Describes America's Dumbf*ck Quandary"
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Is It Time For Red States And Blue States To Collaborate On The Re-Formation Of Two Nations?
The Economies Of Red And Blue America: State Sizes Adjusted To Reflect GDP
It is true that "history is written by the victors" - although the origin of this phrase is uncertain.
16th president of the Reichstag, founder of the Gestapo, and commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe, Hermann Göring observed that “Der Sieger wird immer der Richter und der Besiegte stets der Angeklagte sein,” which translates loosely: “The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.” https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/history-is-written-by-the-victors-quote-origin.html (Notably, the 16th president was "informed on 22 April 1945 that Hitler intended to commit suicide, (and) Göring (then) sent a telegram to Hitler requesting permission to assume control of the Reich. Considering his request an act of treason, Hitler removed Göring from all his positions, expelled him from the party, and ordered his arrest.)
Despite our significant measure of agreement, I disagree with your observation that "our system works for us, your system works for you."
In my view, our system no longer works at all, and we are now experiencing systematic breakdown.
Although I am prepared to see whether "the system" can be salvaged or reinvigorated after November's election, I suggest we start thinking about red states and blue states collaborating on dissolution of the "United" States so that these massive political regions (each of them significantly more populous than Russia) have the opportunity to "show what they're really made of."
Ultimately, "the proof is in the pudding."
Let's see, in the crucible of sovereign political experience, which world view -- "the red" or "the blue" -- will prove to be a better way for people to live together.
In politics, perception is reality.
And the perception of blue states by red states is that they are essentially -- and irremediably -- "gangrenous."
Blue states hold a similar view of their red state counterparts but without the eschatological (and theocratic) zeal for end-time "cleansing."
"Frank Zappa Prophesied A Fascist Theocracy.
Barry Goldwater Agrees"
Polities come to an end.
This inevitability has always proven true.
It was true for every empire: Persia, Greece, Rome, Spain, Great Britain.
I understand that people tend to resist change.
But there comes a time when amputation of a diseased member - even if it's "just" perception of disease -- becomes the political reality.
Alternatively, enforced continuation of a manifestly unworkable union is more likely to end in tragedy than sepaarate, sovereign red and blue constituencies reconstituting themselves according to their perception of "who they are" and then moving forward as polities sharing enough common belief so they can actually compromise with another as a way of resolving differences.
What we currently witness on both sides of Uncle Sam's political aisle are people who consider "the other side" politically, socially and culturally moribund - or even satanic in the view of evangelicals and fundamentalists who comprise America's right-wing Base.
We are living in a time when the "neo-Confederacy" wants to re-litigate the Civil War.
If it becomes clear that our post-election re-alignment is incapable of devising a workable political pact with real compromise as the cornerstone, then it will be best to admit that The Confederacy "won," thus avoiding another Civil War.
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