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In reply to the discussion: Noam Chomsky blasts Obama: He has no moral center [View all]Douglas Carpenter
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States. The will to power does not attract people with solid moral centers. In today's America a person with a strong moral center would have trouble being elected dog catcher in Berkley. Politics as it is now requires officials especially someone as senior as President of the United States to make profoundly immoral decisions and to say things no moral and rational person could possibly believe. That still does not change the reality that we are forced to choose between electing which faction of moral monsters will govern society. Do we elect the ones less likely to commit even greater atrocities? Or do we elect the ones more likely to commit even greater atrocities? Do we elect the ones who will at least sustain most of the current programs that benefit most of America's least fortunate citizens that at least keeps the majority of them fed, medically cared for and in school and warm in the winter? Or do we elect the ones who would make their painful lives even more miserable, eliminate most of what little is currently available to make their wretched lives at least a little less wretched and preach an ideology that relishes bashing the least fortunate and sinisterly gloats in their misforune? WE do have a choice. Which will it be?
Unfortunately though, have no choice between angels and devils.