Let's say BB I'm a man in search of a position, been searching all my time. Climbed mountains, crossed rivers all in search of the one political truth. Been through soap's anarchy, your big gov't, Sat's socialism, Pat's whatever and every single political philosophy is inadequate. There are serious flaws to every school of thought. If you're a federalist you have to support miscegenation laws should states ever decide to reinstate them, you have to support a brother and sister getting married because you supported gay marriage, you have to support fetal experimentation because you support a woman's right to choose so the searcher, the political seeker is left without a position and continues onward......
You are right, Z-man; there are numerous positions in politics. In some parliamentary systems, this is met with many parties..and they sort of align along their common tenets to form majorities. Here, we have two basic parties and I doubt anyone is totally satisfied with the positions they take on issues. Hence, we have the flavors within the parties, odd little things like GOP Women for Choice, (and of course Democrats for Life) Democrats for Gun Ownership, Neocons, paleocons, bluedogs, yellowdogs. We all agree on some things, but if we ever agree on everything, it would be very suspicious. As Soap would probably say, "Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." ~Plato Keep climbing the mountains and crossing the rivers...the trip is informative, if frustrating. :)
"As Soap would probably say, "Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." ~Plato
Something like that
cwhiatt: via Twitter Look, if politics isn't your bag then great. Just do us all a favor then and quit fucking voting. #thankyou #tlot #tcot #preservingliberty 30 Jun
This Andrew Cuomo thing, Giuliani practically praised his victory on gay marriage so I guess Rudy's pretty much stopped trying to please the social cons. Now there's talk of Obama tapping the NY Governor for the VP position and I'm like wait a minute. We still have to discuss his two Supreme Court picks, Sonia and Elena helping to release those 40,000 prisoners in CA. I mean even if people in CA still want to vote for an Obama/Cuomo ticket after all this many of them might be killed off in the next crime wave and yet nobody and I mean nobody's talking about this. Politics is Surreal.
I've been where I'm at since 85 (and I was too young to vote then), so I'm going to go ahead and say it's forever.
I'm not nearly as involved politically as I used to be; there was a lot of activism, protesting, campaigning and all that, but I was young and had plenty of time to do it in. Now I have other priorities and things I need to do, but the principles are still intact.
fair enough...
ReplyDeleteYou'll have two days without library access, hope you have a safe holiday and lots to blog about when you return!
ReplyDeleteLet's say BB I'm a man in search of a position, been searching all my time. Climbed mountains, crossed rivers all in search of the one political truth. Been through soap's anarchy, your big gov't, Sat's socialism, Pat's whatever and every single political philosophy is inadequate. There are serious flaws to every school of thought. If you're a federalist you have to support miscegenation laws should states ever decide to reinstate them, you have to support a brother and sister getting married because you supported gay marriage, you have to support fetal experimentation because you support a woman's right to choose so the searcher, the political seeker is left without a position and continues onward......
ReplyDeleteYou are right, Z-man; there
ReplyDeleteare numerous positions in
politics. In some parliamentary systems, this
is met with many parties..and they sort of
align along their common
tenets to form majorities.
Here, we have two basic
parties and I doubt anyone
is totally satisfied with
the positions they take on
issues. Hence, we have the
flavors within the parties,
odd little things like GOP Women for Choice, (and of course Democrats for Life) Democrats for Gun Ownership, Neocons, paleocons, bluedogs, yellowdogs. We all agree on some things, but if we ever agree on everything, it would be very suspicious. As Soap would probably say,
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." ~Plato
Keep climbing the mountains and crossing the rivers...the trip is
informative, if frustrating. :)
Thaddeus McCotter has thrown his hat into the
ReplyDeletering of GOP presidential
contenders.
Thaddeus McCotter ?!!
"As Soap would probably say,
ReplyDelete"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." ~Plato
Something like that
cwhiatt: via Twitter
Look, if politics isn't your bag then great. Just do us all a favor then and quit fucking voting. #thankyou #tlot #tcot #preservingliberty
30 Jun
This Andrew Cuomo thing, Giuliani practically praised his victory on gay marriage so I guess Rudy's pretty much stopped trying to please the social cons. Now there's talk of Obama tapping the NY Governor for the VP position and I'm like wait a minute. We still have to discuss his two Supreme Court picks, Sonia and Elena helping to release those 40,000 prisoners in CA. I mean even if people in CA still want to vote for an Obama/Cuomo ticket after all this many of them might be killed off in the next crime wave and yet nobody and I mean nobody's talking about this. Politics is Surreal.
ReplyDeleteI've been where I'm at since 85 (and I was too young to vote then), so I'm going to go ahead and say it's forever.
ReplyDeleteI'm not nearly as involved politically as I used to be; there was a lot of activism, protesting, campaigning and all that, but I was young and had plenty of time to do it in. Now I have other priorities and things I need to do, but the principles are still intact.