iLearn: I’d argue Obama won the 2008 Dumbocratic Party nomination, because Hillary was a divisive figure rather than some Grand Plan. He’s a good speaker — the idiot youth, especially, embraced the vague ‘Hope and Change’ spiel. And once he picked up momentum winning so many primaries after Super Tuesday, Billary couldn’t catch up. He spent a lot of time in the early States which helped. His background as a Community Organizer (Communist Party Organizer or rabble-rouser to cynics like me), gave him excellent experience at convincing people & energizing them. But don’t worry. We’ll get Billaried this time.
Incidentally, are there any Community Organizers that encourage people to take personal responsibility, life themselves up, and achieve success from within (hard work, individualism) rather than from without (i.e. the State/welfare/laws/collectivism)?
The idea that the founding fathers were ‘Christians’ the way the religious Right make them out to be, is ludicrous; Washington was a Deist; Adams didn’t believe in Jesus’s divinity; and Jefferson, was VERY much a Deist — a Mega Deist, in fact. The ‘Jefferson Bible’ cut away all the miracles, and left just the moral teachings — I guess that’s ‘Christian philosophy’ — maybe if you’re a Unitarian — it sure isn’t Christianity to anybody today! And of course, Paine was a Deist, Madison was a strong church-State separationist…
The basic idea of multiculturalism — respect for different cultures and races — is laudable. America took in lots of immigrants from many cultures — Irish, Catholics, Hispanics, Jews, Asians, Eastern Europeans — but they INTEGRATED into our society. The problem with the modern welfare State is a lack of integration — ‘political’ refugees that don’t work and consume services — with socialism, eventually, you run out of other people’s money to spend. Coupled with ‘identity’ politics. Why do we need a divisive politician to identify with ‘Black’ interests or ‘Hispanic’ interests? Personally, I’d vote for a one-legged mixed race woman if she’d end fiat currency and shrink the government 90%. I could care less what their religion is, either — as long as they don’t try to ban or force a particular faith on the public… Ironically, though, government grew LESS under Bill Clinton than Bush, largely because of the Wars and new Departments created under Bush post 9/11. Let’s just say the ‘Patriot’ Act wasn’t very patriotic to those who value civil liberties.
The only way the different ethnic groups in the USSR could be held together was FORCE; of the Czar, of Stalin. You had a minority of Russians ruling for decades over majorities of other ethnic groups.
Patriotism? I value individual liberty and a small State, whether it’s run by white, black, yellow, or brown people, or a mixture thereof.
I concede homogeneous nations like Japan have very low levels of, say, violent crime, But I attribute that to culture rather than race/ethnicity. If you go back to the 50’s, they had high homicide rates. I’d argue affluence, shame upon arrest, and police solving nearly 100% of crimes are major factors too (or, unfortunately, finding a scapegoat if they can’t solve it!).
In America we have entire communities of people that live separately, peacefully, radically different lives — take, for instance, the Amish. They aren’t a problem, because they don’t suck up other people’s resources, and they don’t commit theft and murder at high rates… But they’re certainly a different culture than the English that surround them!
InvisibleMan 4 years, 3 months ago.
