Facebook Thread With Tom Magnuson & Others Concerning Left-Wing & Right-Wing Conscience

Notably, longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer described the "corollary" that "absolute faith also corrupts absolutely" which is where American conservatives --- particularly white, "Christian""conservative" Trump Cultists --- might take a close, beneficial look at themselves.

I commend Tom Magnuson for his customarily incisive, insightful review of History's omnipresent dark side.

Taking my cue from Tom I will elaborate on the genocidal roots of American history.

General George Washington Orders "Complete Destruction" Of Iroquois Settlements

(I must mention that I grew up in Iroquois country, and one of my childhood homes was alongside the trail used by Washington's murderous thug-designee General Sullivan who did his best to exterminate the Seneca - one of the six tribes comprising the Iroquois peoples.)

The Origin Of White Supremacy: "An Indigenous People's History Of The United States"

Snopes: "Did Christopher Columbus Seize, Sell, and Export Sex Slaves?"

I, for one, do not "only get mad when it’s a Republican doing the thing that offends liberty."

But I wonder...

Are you prepared to go on the record with a robust criticism-denunciation of Trump who is the greatest existential threat ever to American liberty, not to mention his determination to undermine the rubrics of representative government as it relates to separation of powers, the Rule of Law, an independent judiciary and the avoidance of overt criminality as evidenced by daily receipt of emoluments and the crimes against humanity perped -- even now -- in Uncle Sam's Tex-Mex concentration camps.

"Definition: Concentration Camp" http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/06/definition-concentration-camp.html

There are also the issues of Malignant Messiah's interpersonal abusiveness, misogyny, racism and horrifying cruelty. "More Of Trump's Cruelty"

And finally, although I'm aware that America's right-wing has lathered itself to appropriate the following Lincoln quotation as its own, Abe's instincts were thoroughly liberal - even progressive -- and remarkably critical of Capitalism.

Abraham Lincoln: "Capitalists Generally Act Harmoniously And In Concert To Fleece The People"

Abraham Lincoln On The Relationship Between Labor And Capital

"Lincoln's Prediction Of Political Suicide As A Clear And Present Danger, Far More Dangerous Than Any Hostile Power From Overseas"

"I know one thing---there is a strike! And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world."