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user-inactivated  ·  1854 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An Agenda for Moderates: "Love Your Neighbor"

Wellll this is the problem that has haunted us for ages, isn't it. We want to create a world based on love but when large swaths of people are willing to use force and elected power to establish their vision of less for everyone else, do we fight back or try to destroy them with love?

Is loving your neighbour allowing them to die because they can't afford health insurance? The problem is American politics has been tilted right for so long that "doing nothing and loving your neighbour" is just going to lead to more Trumpian shenanigans, tax cuts for the wealthy, driving up the cost of healthcare, the introduction of more reactionary policies in the justice system, the freezing of the minimum wage at $7/hour or whatever it is currently.

I recommend those at Brooks' blog purchase a membership card to Centrist Chads International.





nowaypablo  ·  1854 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"Love your neighbor" is by no means a legitimate electable tag-line right now. The irony here isn't lost on me. But his description of the parties is pretty accurate-- not just in this piece-- yet unaddressed by most people in political discourse. And just to his credit, he does a great job of digging up anecdotal evidence from American political history to add an extra hint of 'troubling' to it all.