Posted by
Bob B on Sunday, August 24, 2008 5:31:59 PM
My blog is entitled RANDOM THOTS so it occurred to me I should include an occasional random thought. There follows two. It’s my version of read one, get one free.
This is some of my heavier stuff. I hope you will visit RANDOM THOTS again and often enough to enjoy the frivolity also on the menu.
Sharpton and Jackson
Racial harmony is their worst nightmare. They would become irrelevant. They must create issues which are naturally divisive, stir up unrest, and pit black against white.
They continue to fight the war that Martin Luther King has already won. Rather than further his progress they intrude on it,
Racism has made them rich. Sharpton is a local boy to me and I remember when he didn’t have a pit to hiss in.
Liberal vs conservative
Liberals emote, demagoguery is effective, their leaders know that.
Conservatives reason, are less fearful, more optimistic, realistic and less exciting.
Liberals feel guilty for their prosperity and advocate reducing their status or more often the status of others, toward the level of those with less.
Conservatives are thankful for their prosperity and advocate policies that enable the less fortunate to raise their status
Liberal philosophy, produces ideological thinking, the distinguishing quality of which is to regard those who oppose it as malicious. For a liberal, if doctrine and reality clash, reality must give way. Hence rational dialogue with a liberal is difficult: Neither logic nor evidence have any influence on their viewpoint.
Liberals see support for most any government program as compassion, and lack of support as lack of compassion.
Conservatives see compassion as individual support for the individual needy, direct, without going through government.
Liberals tend to be totally non judgmental, not holding people responsible for their own actions.
Conservatives do hold people responsible for their own actions, primarily if those actions were motivated by character flaws. ‘If you do not want to work, ok, but don’t ask me to feed you’
Do you have a random thought? Comment on it. I'd love to hear it.