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THAT is a fair point.Some certainly fit that mold... But the accusations of fascism certainly aren't confined to just the people who actually want to deny someone else rights.
For instance, if I were to say "I'm cool with calling someone whatever name they want to be called, people can use whichever bathroom they like, and they should be protected from employment housing discrimination... but, I think there needs to be a bigger conversation surrounding things like like contact sports, and I think people may be jumping the gun a little bit by adding this to elementary school curriculums and giving people hormone replacement therapy after one visit with a physician"
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... That would be enough for the die hard activists to make such an accusation against me, despite the fact that I'm about 80% on their side.
I agree with this, including the person who was the apparent cause.The paradigm that the party which is not in the White House must function as an “opposition-party”, (which works quite nicely under a parliamentary system, which our system is definitely not), seems to have been born in the 1990s under Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Our system relies on both parties working together to achieve a rough consensus without either party getting everything that it might desire, yet moving the Nation forward in a “two-steps forward, one-step back” sort of way.
They could move to a more parliamentary system but that would require a Constitutional Convention to repeal/replace Article One; this isn’t likely to occur anytime soon, though.
If the side saying "the dinner party hosts are pedophiles" are content merely to stay home from the dinner party along with anyone else who believes the same thing, rather than prohibit the dinner party (that is: tolerance), then there's no problem.Yes but there is a side saying "the dinner party hosts are pedophiles" when statistics bear out that their community harbours a far greater rate of pedophiles. But most importantly, there is Absolutely NO PROOF that the dinner party hosts are pedophiles OR dangerous to children.
Why should the dinner party hosts feel obliged to fight with reason if their opponents do not and continue to slander them?
Depends on what they're calling "repression."Well, for the people who have been patiently waiting through decades of repression of their in-group, there isn’t going to be a “changing ‘too fast’!” moment. They’ve waited long enough to have full equal rights with the rest of us.
To “out here” 18 months seems fast, to these formerly repressed people it’s been a very long time.
I agree so long as they do not also slander by saying they are dangerous to children, sure.If the side saying "the dinner party hosts are pedophiles" are content merely to stay home from the dinner party along with anyone else who believes the same thing, rather than prohibit the dinner party (that is: tolerance), then there's no problem.
Lack of empathy, patience and humility.But really, what do you guys think.
Slander is sufficiently prosecutable by law, if that's what's occuring.I agree so long as they do not also slander by saying they are dangerous to children, sure.
What is happening?Of course that is not happenning. There are many people doing more than just sitting on their couch not going to the party. And what is stopping the couch people from saying "I disagree with you but please go ahead and fill your boots because you have the constitutional right to do so.
Well, to be fair, the framers were divided on the issue.John Adams said our Constitution was made “only for a moral and religious people and is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” So when you have more and more unbelievers and they are pushing for a new progressive values you are bound to have more polarization. The bible says in the last days love will grow cold too. Not so many nice people, educators that are often bent on indoctrination and anti-God stuff, media that is clearly biased all play into this answer. There are other factors, that the pdf also points out such as inequality. In a sense evil has gotten bolder and more upfront, and many Christians have responded with their agendas, making clashes inevitable.
A good question is what can turn this around? Revival/renewal is hopeful and impactful. Negative events too like war or some serious disasters can also work to bring people together. You can see the democrats now getting uncomfortable with their own that are antisemitic and the Republicans too are split in many ways. Sad for the USA but it seems pretty predictable.
That is why they abandoned the Kingdom of God to align themselves first with the Roman Empire and down the line. Oddly also many American evangelical pastors seem to think they have a political edge because they are perfect (prefect?) examples of free enterprise and capitalism (also contrary to the Kingdom).In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
What are we to do until the blessed event?-...Yes, but lies are a characteristic of a kingdom of satan, which America is part of satans kingdom. Even though it was not around when satan came into possession of the earth's kingdoms.
...Only Israel was a nation God created and reserved for Himself, but even now they are left to the world after they rejected Jesus as their Messiah. Truth will rule only when Jesus locks away satan and brings in His kingdom to rule the nations of earth.
No, politics fights over the selfishness of man while those of the Kingdom care for others including their enemies.What are we to do until the blessed event?
That’s what politics is about, innit?
I stopped myself from posting this opinion in another thread because I'm curious about what Americans in America think is pulling America apart.
I am 1000% convinced that the left and the right do NOT agree on what that is. As I'm outside of it, I have my own opinions on both groups. But from SPECIFICALLY where you sit, what do you think is causing the slow melting of America's standing.
My thoughts?
Right
Mass migration
DQSH/LGBTQ issues
CRT
Economic crisis (which isn't actually an ECONOMIC crisis...it's a distribution of wealth crisis as the rich get richer and the middle and poor get left behind....still)
Left
Greed/Corporate exploitation
Racism
The removal of rights for certain classes of people
Republican degradation of national institutions.
But really, what do you guys think.
https://aztownhall.org/resources/Documents/Bridging Divides to Build Community/Stuck in the Middle - The Extremes Pulling America Apart Summary.pdf
That's a link to a boring pdf that indicates that it is the extremism that's tearing America apart. Seems boring and, frankly, the "Extreme left" in America? I'm curious who that would include....
What are we to do until the blessed event?
That’s what politics is about, innit?
I think we can all take time to mark the progress we've made and use it as a reminder of the work still to be done. I can use the Gay Mardi Gras in Sydney as an example. We used to attend as a mark of solidarity with gay rights. Now so much progress has been made here that it's more of a celebration of that fact and it's turned into a party rather than a demonstration. The original march for rights served it's purpose. So...we don't bother going any more. But turning up is not used as a 'litmus test' as to your position on gay rights. And anyone else who suggested that I didn't support them because I don't now go would get short thrift.Today, it's regarded as "oppression" if everyone doesn't like and celebrate us. "You won't celebrate Juneteenth with me? You're oppressing me!" And we constantly create and upgrade more and more litmus tests to that effect, more and more difficult tests to avoid the charge of "oppressor."
Hyperbole doesn't help in this type of discussion."You won't let me walk out of your store with an item I haven't paid for? Oppressor!"
Well, when the Kingdom is here you’ll have it the way you’d like it; until then we have to consider all of those not in our in-groups.No, politics fights over the selfishness of man while those of the Kingdom care for others including their enemies.
Well the first thing and most important is to believe in Jesus for God's free gift of Eternal Life. Work hard and live your life as humbly and as honest as you can. trying best to follow the laws of the land and to understand that government is not the solution.
There is that, yes, the trick to to get some benefit for the rest of us while they rake it in.For me politics is about getting politicians and their buddies rich.
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