There is a reason why Jewish (and later Christian) scripture always talks about loving your NEIGHBOR--because the faults and differences and irritations that your neighbor provides are there every day in your face--making it very easy to hate your neighbor.
Those guys on the other side of the ocean? Who cares? They aren't really REAL to …
There is a reason why Jewish (and later Christian) scripture always talks about loving your NEIGHBOR--because the faults and differences and irritations that your neighbor provides are there every day in your face--making it very easy to hate your neighbor.
Those guys on the other side of the ocean? Who cares? They aren't really REAL to the average person. That bastard next door is. His dog barked all night last night Ima kill that thing.
Heretics (or apparent heretics) get shorter shrift than people of a different faith. It is the people that are most like us (but not quite) that are often the most feared and hated. They are seen as traitors or fools.
Ken White identifies the core problem we face. As has been said many times here by JVL, myself, and others, it isn't the politicians, it isn't Trump--they are symptoms, bootlickers, panderers. It is the people who want what they have to sell--the people who were there, waiting for that product, that are the problem.
They are the reason that all of this will end badly... because what do you do about them? You could jail or silence all the politicians and media people and new ones selling the same thing would spring up from the ground. Because there is money to be made. Because there is power to gathered. It is like trying to fight a War on Drugs by targeting the suppliers while ignoring the demand that exists.
In the end, all you do is drive up the stakes and the costs.
There is a reason why Jewish (and later Christian) scripture always talks about loving your NEIGHBOR--because the faults and differences and irritations that your neighbor provides are there every day in your face--making it very easy to hate your neighbor.
Those guys on the other side of the ocean? Who cares? They aren't really REAL to the average person. That bastard next door is. His dog barked all night last night Ima kill that thing.
Heretics (or apparent heretics) get shorter shrift than people of a different faith. It is the people that are most like us (but not quite) that are often the most feared and hated. They are seen as traitors or fools.
Ken White identifies the core problem we face. As has been said many times here by JVL, myself, and others, it isn't the politicians, it isn't Trump--they are symptoms, bootlickers, panderers. It is the people who want what they have to sell--the people who were there, waiting for that product, that are the problem.
They are the reason that all of this will end badly... because what do you do about them? You could jail or silence all the politicians and media people and new ones selling the same thing would spring up from the ground. Because there is money to be made. Because there is power to gathered. It is like trying to fight a War on Drugs by targeting the suppliers while ignoring the demand that exists.
In the end, all you do is drive up the stakes and the costs.