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pecosbob

(7,511 posts)
2. Shit...I'm so old I remember when committing a crime disqualified you from seeking public office
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 06:00 PM
Mar 2023

as did abject stupidity...

MayReasonRule

(1,460 posts)
10. I'm Unaware of Any Time that Some Idiots Did Not Rule, or Any Time that Some Criminals Did Not Rule
Fri Mar 17, 2023, 11:13 AM
Mar 2023
What particular time are you referencing? I'm sixty and unaware of any such time.

It seems to me that this is yet again an unbridled uprising of malevolent delusion from the Christo-Fascists within our society.

Our country was founded by genocidal bigoted patriarchs. The Abrahamic delusions have a long and sordid history of genocidal fascism, from the historical mythology of the "old testament" through the "new testament", into every age following, all the way into today. They've had an outsized role within our society inflicting their tenets of intimidation, incarceration and extermination.

For as long as we've had a country the rule has been that most often there are many criminally malevolent idiots that have ruled. Each generation has continued to struggle with this ongoing enemy within.

It has always been and continues to be a fight between malevolent Machiavellian delusion and reason's progress.

On occasion, reason has ruled.
On occasion, reason still rules today.

That is not a hard and fast rule, reason is only employed through ongoing battles with the malevolent depravity that defines various individuals and groups.

The battle is unending.
It is a moment to moment, day to day, ongoing burden that we only sustain through our collective efforts.
This fight, is what I perceive that our Democratic Party fights for individually and collectively,

The GOP is the party of delusion and disorder.
The Democrats are the party of reason and progress.

Which is why I desire and fight for reason to rule.
Our fight is never done.

May reason rule!






TheRickles

(2,000 posts)
11. I'm just saying that the threshold for yanking an SC nominee has changed dramatically over the years
Fri Mar 17, 2023, 01:14 PM
Mar 2023

Two Clinton nominations - Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood - were withdrawn because they didn't pay Social Security taxes for their nannies. Quite a change from current practices, and what nominees have gotten away with. And yes, there are still plenty of idiots and criminals in high places.

MayReasonRule

(1,460 posts)
14. Cool, I'm On Board With That Assessment. The GOP's Bereft of Honor, Decorum, or Basic Human Decency
Fri Mar 17, 2023, 03:28 PM
Mar 2023

The GOP went full Fascist, through and through.

Even Barry Goldwater spotted a thing or two:

“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.”


Used to be there really was a limit to the majority of the GOP's delusional depravity.
Y'all Qaeda's Nat-C Fascist GOP of today knows no such bounds.

The GOP slaughtered folks across the board during the COVID breakout.

Today's Nat-C GOP has a three pronged plan, shocker... it's the same as the historical Nazis. Imagine that...

1. Intimidation
2. Incarceration
3. Extermination

... of anyone not conforming to their "closely held beliefs' or anything that dare impede or oppose their depraved crimes against humanity.

GOP Delusion currently rules SCOTUS, the Heartland, and the majority of Southern states.
This is no joke, never was. It's like watching the Spanish Inquisition and The Sound of Music play out simultaneously.

The GOP is simultaneously being driven by those full of "delusion fueled by hate" and by those with "hate fueled by delusion", which sums up the entirety of the GOP.

I'm in Caddo Parish.
I remember when i had a choice between known mobster Edwin Edwards or KKK Grand Wizard David Duke (forerunner of Y'all Qaeda) for Governor of Louisiana.

I voted for the known mobster.

The red states are more or less KKK. The KKK have always been Christian Fascists, they define today's Y'all Qaeda Nat-C GOP.

Indeed, things have changed.

MayReasonRule

(1,460 posts)
9. Ehh, so you're sayin', that you're older than time itself...??? I'm unaware of such a time...
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 08:23 PM
Mar 2023

Lol, what "time" is it you're referencing, and where may have this anomalous singularity occurred? Holy Schomoles Batman!!

Color me out of the loop.

I'm unaware of any time in my life time that no idiots ruled, and no criminals were in charge.
For as long as I've been alive, some idiots always rule, and some criminals are always in charge. Sometimes simultaneously.

That was a Trump...

Since I'm shooting for a one hundred and twenty year lifespan, at sixty I figure I'm middle aged. I reason things out my in my own ways, which are primarily collaborative, which necessitates the input of others that may understand things that I do not.

I was reading Poe, Exodus, and Machiavelli simultaneously at the age of eight.

Best I can tell, mankind's storied history is an embroidered tapestry of a war between reason, delusion, malevolence, compassion, power, and survival.

I'm aware of elements of all epochs of mankind's societal evolution that are key turning points that we still build upon today. Each of those epochs also contained unspeakable horrors inflicted by man upon mankind itself.

Moments of collaborative understanding are what allow the success of all forms of society no matter how small or large.
Because necessity is the "mother of invention", the malevolent adversities that each of the epochs has faced provide opportunities for societal evolution that often furthered opportunities for life, liberty and the pursuit of justice.

Outside of storied mythological fables, within which mankind has gathered it's tales of old that are either viewed as "god's word" or an historical retelling of a compendium of particular perspectives that managed to gather resonance of what was viewed as "gods word" and is now viewed as a historical retelling of ages gone by from which mankind may gain perspective in furtherance of our current and future success.

It is those that do not know the past that are doomed to repeat it.

Let our mantra be reason which allows a society in which we all wish to live.

May reason rule.

jaxexpat

(6,703 posts)
7. I remember him lighting the Christmas Tree lights on teevee in 1959.
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 07:32 PM
Mar 2023

We'd just gotten our first ever television. I was 7. I thought he was a superpower. That word was a brand new trope on the news. Be spoke it and it was so!

11 Bravo

(23,922 posts)
12. And "That's the way it is" used to wrap up the news. Now at FOX ...
Fri Mar 17, 2023, 01:44 PM
Mar 2023

while not explicitly admitted (except under oath) it's, "And that's not what really happened, but it's what you want to hear" that wraps up the news for millions of cousin-humping goobers.

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