Ranger7374 wrote:
I hear your frustration and feel your anger. When you have a group of more than three people, then it is true the topics wherever they are born from, become political. I don't remember who said it, but Mel Gibson said it in the movie "Patriot", when Benjamin Martin(Gibson) turned to his fellow colonialists and said, "Do I trade one tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants one mile away?"
Funny thing about politics though, just like culture, religion, race and creed, the principles are political. And politics is just a way of solving these problems. Now the bigger the bureaucracy, the bigger the politics. What I mean here, is that people will lie, cheat, steal, and murder to get their own way.
As far as lying, I have noticed that there are many that don't understand what a lie is. I can forgive a person from lying as the lie is exposed as "the person giving the information does not know it is a lie", or even if at the time of the statement, the statement was not a lie but became a lie after the fact. We all know that a lie is a false truth. But when truth becomes a lie that is dangerous territory. If the person did not know the truth and was assuming that the statement was the truth that is one thing. But the blatant denial of truth or principle is an unforgivable lie.
Among the conditions of the human person, that come out quite often in a social atmosphere, are politics, religion, culture, logic and reason. Principles make a framework of rules to govern these conditions. The campaigning for a person or an idea, is politics. The theory of God or a supreme being is religion. Now religion can have politics by itself and is most prone to political reasoning. Then you have culture which is built upon both religion and politics. Finally there is logic and reason.
The framers of the Constitution of the United States under stood these conditions, and framed the conditions in an orderly fashion to allow freedom for all and to limit the government to deter tyrants. Therefore, instead of using in modern law, religion, politics, culture, social interaction, as foundations for law, they used simple and plain logic and reason.
Through logic and reason and understanding or a wisdom develops which negates some rules established in politics, religion, culture, etc. Problems occur when one side of a situation becomes intolerant to the other side. Like Left wing politics or right wing politics, or even liberal vs conservatives etc. What we are witnessing right now in American History is a time where the Right wingers, (generally called conservatives) and the left wingers(generally called liberal) are refusing to work in peace and harmony together. On one side we have a complaint with no foundation (liberal media), on the other side we have conservatives who can't decide what to do. But both sides do not like who is leading the country.
So the liberals attack Trump, going against the very same principles they have been preaching for over 40 years. The conservatives seem to be dumbfounded as Mitt Romney was when he got President Obama to admit that Obama was responsible for the deaths of the Americans in Benghazi.
Meanwhile Trump is shoring up the country by taking action. He does this by following the Laws passed by Congress and now, the very ones who supported such laws are demonizing the President for following the laws they wrote and passed.
Now that I've established the principles of the frame work this country has established. And now that I've identified the problems that we face, I ask you all you parents out there, How do we keep the kids from fighting and resolve this intolerable show of force from with in this country?
How?
I hear your frustration and feel your anger. When ... (
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As always by setting good examples, something this president hasn't done. For example, when he states "he would beat the crap out of them" he brings himself down to a schoolyard mentality and not that of an educated adult. And yes I said educated, contrary to those on the far right, education is not a bad word.