Excellent post that deserves amplification. The insights here are much more than food for thought, they stongly suggest a call to intelligent action. Here's a start: make ranked choice voting the norm and the law.
Two things that Trump has done cement my belief that he has no business in the White House. First, he removed the bust of MLKJ from the Oval Office and then more recently, he ordered flags to be displayed at half-staff to honor Charlie Kirk.
I confess I had not heard of Kirk until the news of his death, but then I started looking at what he said.
Kirk did not speak to all Americans, but to white Americans. His view of where power should be was patriarchal. He had nothing to say to people of color. His audiences, like the Republican Party, were almost entirely white and his message was one of victimhood, of wrongs done to the most privileged Americans. The name of his group, Turning Point, implies a reversal of the expansion of rights to so many who were denied them in practice if not in law. Though I did not hear him say it, he could easily have said certain people need to be put in their place.
MLKJ spoke to all of humanity. He addressed whites as "my white brothers and sisters" even as they cursed him and even threw stones at him in Cicero, IL. His efforts to speak for the undeniably powerless and victimized at the risk of his life was always seen. His most famous speech mentioned individuals being judged by the quality of their character and not the color of their skin. I don't know if Kirk had a name given to him by his detractors, but MLKJ was referred to as "Martin Luther Coon" by a good number of his.
One could not find a greater contrast than that between Kirk and King. The former would have felt comfortable in the Old South and certainly in the current South, while King would have likely been lynched in the Old South for not "knowing his place"
We have a bigot in the White House. His actions regarding Kirk and King cry out to all of us to do as King recommended and judge the individual by his character. That judgement would not be difficult as it is confirmed almost daily. I repeat: The man has no business in the White House. He does not represent we the people.
I am suprised that I liked some of what you said, in a way that made me think. I'm not understanding the ways you used the words Democracy & Republic. We are not a democracy, we do something things in a democratic way.
I grew up in a JFK democrat family who all switched to Republican as it seems more toward the JFK government. Unless I missed it I did not see you produce any meaningful actual actions to change things toward the better. I do think manners, as in politically correctness & more, made things worse. I believe we are being talked into opposite camps & us v them, not just by race but age, education levels, regions, illegals, & more.
First and foremost is the “context” asserted: “Our Crisis.” I go no farther than that bare bones fundamental organic statement. Because it is a part of the asserted claim—-It is not the case that our crisis is a failure of
manners. ~(p .=. q) Please :>) bear with me!’ I didn’t learn any of what I’ve said from people who are direct descendants of HM Sheffer and I have zero access to such people or his works or any one who can help me in that respect; and thank heavens for that at this moment…I learned this from working with as many AI models as could as a retirement hobby begun 30 years after retirement.
My problem is that “our crisis” can be any thing you want it to be and therefore its predicate is what ever you want it to be. And so I will supply my own “premise” p AND from that premise derive what is logically a q which would follow.
(I feel no shame in my attempt to argue this point if I get it laughingly wrong by the accounts of those who’ve mastered this art.
(I learn by losing is a lost art in a tough guy roided out deliberately promoted Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals policy of a small but bullying faction of extremes within both Republican and Democratic Party.) I get it; it’s the snarling identity rage hate politics of ‘Obama got away with it and “we” resent that he got to play a card we cannot. That is not a crisis, that is a complete invalidation if our U.S. Constituionzl e instance. There’s a reason why the First Amendment is the 1st set of rights the GOVERNMEN is supposed to protect. This nation was designed to be a nation of diversity of religion and ethnicity. And by the same token that design is specifically to protect the millions and millions of Americans from having a forced on them a religion or belief system that violates the nations fundamental laws against disturbing the peace. The Govt is under a duty to protect all of us from any activities of such “out-law demanding systems; and such behavior—- regardless of the protests— if contrary to law cannot be permitted by govt it it violates the rights of others. Or “q” our manners.
Having said that I literally wait for Klein’s show. I used to be a WaPo & NYT loyalist because of the measured wisdom h still brings to the table,
Excellent post that deserves amplification. The insights here are much more than food for thought, they stongly suggest a call to intelligent action. Here's a start: make ranked choice voting the norm and the law.
A very good essay. Point taken.
Two things that Trump has done cement my belief that he has no business in the White House. First, he removed the bust of MLKJ from the Oval Office and then more recently, he ordered flags to be displayed at half-staff to honor Charlie Kirk.
I confess I had not heard of Kirk until the news of his death, but then I started looking at what he said.
Kirk did not speak to all Americans, but to white Americans. His view of where power should be was patriarchal. He had nothing to say to people of color. His audiences, like the Republican Party, were almost entirely white and his message was one of victimhood, of wrongs done to the most privileged Americans. The name of his group, Turning Point, implies a reversal of the expansion of rights to so many who were denied them in practice if not in law. Though I did not hear him say it, he could easily have said certain people need to be put in their place.
MLKJ spoke to all of humanity. He addressed whites as "my white brothers and sisters" even as they cursed him and even threw stones at him in Cicero, IL. His efforts to speak for the undeniably powerless and victimized at the risk of his life was always seen. His most famous speech mentioned individuals being judged by the quality of their character and not the color of their skin. I don't know if Kirk had a name given to him by his detractors, but MLKJ was referred to as "Martin Luther Coon" by a good number of his.
One could not find a greater contrast than that between Kirk and King. The former would have felt comfortable in the Old South and certainly in the current South, while King would have likely been lynched in the Old South for not "knowing his place"
We have a bigot in the White House. His actions regarding Kirk and King cry out to all of us to do as King recommended and judge the individual by his character. That judgement would not be difficult as it is confirmed almost daily. I repeat: The man has no business in the White House. He does not represent we the people.
I am suprised that I liked some of what you said, in a way that made me think. I'm not understanding the ways you used the words Democracy & Republic. We are not a democracy, we do something things in a democratic way.
I grew up in a JFK democrat family who all switched to Republican as it seems more toward the JFK government. Unless I missed it I did not see you produce any meaningful actual actions to change things toward the better. I do think manners, as in politically correctness & more, made things worse. I believe we are being talked into opposite camps & us v them, not just by race but age, education levels, regions, illegals, & more.
Loved this, fwiw
A reminder of what democracy - advanced citizenship - is. It stretches to meet the moment rather than shrinks within itself and walks away. Thank you.
First and foremost is the “context” asserted: “Our Crisis.” I go no farther than that bare bones fundamental organic statement. Because it is a part of the asserted claim—-It is not the case that our crisis is a failure of
manners. ~(p .=. q) Please :>) bear with me!’ I didn’t learn any of what I’ve said from people who are direct descendants of HM Sheffer and I have zero access to such people or his works or any one who can help me in that respect; and thank heavens for that at this moment…I learned this from working with as many AI models as could as a retirement hobby begun 30 years after retirement.
My problem is that “our crisis” can be any thing you want it to be and therefore its predicate is what ever you want it to be. And so I will supply my own “premise” p AND from that premise derive what is logically a q which would follow.
(I feel no shame in my attempt to argue this point if I get it laughingly wrong by the accounts of those who’ve mastered this art.
(I learn by losing is a lost art in a tough guy roided out deliberately promoted Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals policy of a small but bullying faction of extremes within both Republican and Democratic Party.) I get it; it’s the snarling identity rage hate politics of ‘Obama got away with it and “we” resent that he got to play a card we cannot. That is not a crisis, that is a complete invalidation if our U.S. Constituionzl e instance. There’s a reason why the First Amendment is the 1st set of rights the GOVERNMEN is supposed to protect. This nation was designed to be a nation of diversity of religion and ethnicity. And by the same token that design is specifically to protect the millions and millions of Americans from having a forced on them a religion or belief system that violates the nations fundamental laws against disturbing the peace. The Govt is under a duty to protect all of us from any activities of such “out-law demanding systems; and such behavior—- regardless of the protests— if contrary to law cannot be permitted by govt it it violates the rights of others. Or “q” our manners.
Having said that I literally wait for Klein’s show. I used to be a WaPo & NYT loyalist because of the measured wisdom h still brings to the table,