tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post4431497688041023936..comments2008-09-08T19:35:16.002-04:00Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-65820037168705178732008-09-08T19:35:00.000-04:002008-09-08T19:35:00.000-04:00Good work. I blogged to your blog.GovtFluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14768491277525820680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-24211477416579948282008-05-18T18:51:00.000-04:002008-05-18T18:51:00.000-04:00Thanks for commenting, folks.<BR/><BR/>anon #1,<BR/>We need to recapture the Democratic Party from the corporatists. Start locally, go to meetings, research the issues and speak out. It's daunting but but we can do something that's better than nothing at all.<BR/><BR/>anon #2,<BR/>What birdsong said.<BR/><BR/>oldmayfly,<BR/>Yup, they love the "with us or against us" ultimatum. Pure black and white.<BR/><BR/>birdsong,<BR/>Thanks, you took the words out of my mouth.<BR/><BR/>anon #3,<BR/>You just can't argue with a Fox-viewing little old church lady. Just smile and say, "Of course, you wouldn't understand."<BR/><BR/><BR/>Brother Tim,<BR/>It brings to mind the proverb, "Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well-advised is wisdom."Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-4093645666786497502008-05-18T00:27:00.000-04:002008-05-18T00:27:00.000-04:00I find it amazing that the right-wing Evangelicals feel 'the end justifies the means'. I have heard it from them many times. My usual response is: Not only does the Bible not teach that, it teaches just the opposite; 'the means will justify the end'.Brother Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08603553502416272941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-64555667115278126552008-05-16T03:08:00.000-04:002008-05-16T03:08:00.000-04:00I have an "Impeach Bush" bumper sticker. A woman in a parking lot asked me why I had it. I told her that I supported the Constitution. Her immediate response,"Don't you believe in the Bible?" She said that I looked like a nice person and then recommended that I watch Fox News. I'm sure that she was a nice person too. But I would never want to go to her church. And my recent dinner/dance at an Elks Lodge, fine people which they are, eventually led to a hand-holding in a ring "ceremony" built around the song,"Proud to be an American." They continue to be caught in a time warp, never questioning that they might be losing their freedoms. Too many Americans are caught up in believing in things and never questioning, shades of cult mind control. The realities of pre-emptive war, torture and computer vote hacking are totally lost on these neighbors. BELIEVE!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-41016219764958794252008-05-15T09:47:00.000-04:002008-05-15T09:47:00.000-04:00I wonder if Masonic lodges, many modern churches etc are not part of the problem working through mind-numbing rituals and passive captive congregations to establish power hierarchies that are the core structure of authoritarianism.<BR/><BR/>And please note everyone, the second post here...notice the tone of suppressed rage, the contempt, the ferocious denial through REVERSAL and then PROJECTION of the whole problem onto one little book which, though it has been read only by a few specialists and students, is blamed for the entire "pliant, weak-willed population". <BR/><BR/>Unreasoning authoritarianism foaming along here in plain sight ...this is how they think, this is how angry and disturbed they are. <BR/><BR/>What a great demonstration of the authoritarian response! Ibirdsonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03492130925638993963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-24052941404430238402008-05-15T09:09:00.000-04:002008-05-15T09:09:00.000-04:00I think Authoritarians evaluate actions on the basis of the actor's status, rather than on the nature or consequences of the action.<BR/><BR/>For example, if my leader is "Godly", then it follows that anything he does is good. If your leader is "unGodly" , then anything he/she does is bad.<BR/><BR/>Attacking defenseless cities and killing and wounding innocent people is wrong if it is done by "bad people", but perfectly justified if it is done by "good people," such as ourselves.<BR/><BR/>A perfect example of this kind of backward logic is, "If the President does it, it isn't a crime."OldMayflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13466267076426350156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-38188838071046286942008-05-15T07:13:00.000-04:002008-05-15T07:13:00.000-04:00It is Adorno's idiotic book that is RESPONSIBLE for the pliant, weak willed population that we have today, and therefore the danger of fascism, not the "authoritarian personalities" who simply are people who insist on truth as a principle of politics.<BR/><BR/>This whole report is upside down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-77910794496952084582008-05-14T19:35:00.000-04:002008-05-14T19:35:00.000-04:00Well we are not going to change human nature so what do those of us who can think but do not have power do? How do we form sub-units that work for us (say for example Mason Lodges, Moose Lodges, churches, etc).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com