In your guts, you know he's nuts
1964 presidential political campaign button parody of Goldwater's
"In your heart, you know he's right"
Earlier, i stated that if Goldwater was alive to-day he and his successor, Ronald Reagan, would be the liberals in the Republican Party. A little less than fifty years ago Goldwater was considered a crazy extremist. He would lead his party to its second biggest defeat of the century, only Alf Landon's loss to Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 was greater. Roosevelt saved this country, and its unappreciative capitalists. Roosevelt was a liberal. The Democrats are not running such liberals any more.
President Obama is close to being a moderate 1950s Republican. America has gone backwards. The Republican party is awful. Why would any decent, sane person be a Republican? The John Birch Society (the Tea Party of its day) considered Eisenhower a communist. The Koch family has bankrolled both operations. That is their politics, it is selfish and demented. Texas has two odious senators, and several wheelbarrow loads of outhouse rat crazy Representatives. The brand new junior senator, Ted Cruz, is in spirit and image Joe McCarthy.
'Leaders' often only follow, there has to be some popular support. Wisconsin's Walker, Arizona's Brewer, Texas's Goofy Gohmert and the rest were elected. Any ridiculous, fabricated nonsense is not too bizarre to be run with. If fear, fantasy, and lies are not welcomed and accepted by a core of people they would not spread and endure. Actual equality does not exist in the United States, but that social, economic, and political inequality allows an equality of ideas—knowledge and ignorance, truth and falsity are equal. "Quid est veritas?"*, Pilate dismissively mocks Jesus. Pilate is the Procurator of Judea, a political governor. Pilate has no concern, nor respect for the concept of truth. It is only words.
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* "Quid est veritas?" "What is truth?"
Some speculate Pilate expressed a philosophical curiosity in this query. No. I have found when one brings up an ethical point to someone whom has no moral qualms (goal oriented) they dismiss (either derisively or nonchalantly) the silly thought, and treat the person a fool, or a joker.
'Leaders' often only follow, there has to be some popular support. Wisconsin's Walker, Arizona's Brewer, Texas's Goofy Gohmert and the rest were elected. Any ridiculous, fabricated nonsense is not too bizarre to be run with. If fear, fantasy, and lies are not welcomed and accepted by a core of people they would not spread and endure. Actual equality does not exist in the United States, but that social, economic, and political inequality allows an equality of ideas—knowledge and ignorance, truth and falsity are equal. "Quid est veritas?"*, Pilate dismissively mocks Jesus. Pilate is the Procurator of Judea, a political governor. Pilate has no concern, nor respect for the concept of truth. It is only words.
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* "Quid est veritas?" "What is truth?"
Some speculate Pilate expressed a philosophical curiosity in this query. No. I have found when one brings up an ethical point to someone whom has no moral qualms (goal oriented) they dismiss (either derisively or nonchalantly) the silly thought, and treat the person a fool, or a joker.
John xviii.—37 Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice. 38 Pilate saith to him: What is truth? And when he said this, he went out again to the Jews, and saith to them: I find no cause in him.
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