Why have a brain if you are not going to use it? Huffington Post: Debacle Over House Speaker Election May Raise National Security Concerns Yet, in truth, the speakership battle was ALL about improving the system (i.e., making it more representative). That is, enhancing the power of...
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The sole dissenting voice must be protected (i.e., HEARD AND TOLERATED). The majority tends to bully, and this is antithetical to the process of reason. And, so long as we reject reason, societal disharmony will grow. Presently, the bruhaha over speakership of congress illustrates this problem...
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As proof: https://server.learningframework.com/?p=14799 Popes Benedict and John Paul were gifts to humanity. Thank God for them. However, and unfortunately, relativism has come in reaction to Church-dictated absolute truths. Neither is ideal from my perspective. Or, I should say, both produce (or manage, in the case of the Church)...
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle. Emotionally or intellectually mature people hold hypotheses (conceptual models) in their prefrontal cortex (in reason). The intellectually immature hold thoughts as truths in their cerebral cortex. This is...
Read MoreWhat is the secret to getting along with someone you live with whose views on life and politics are significantly different than yours? Accept that your views are only subjective truths. Accept that others have their own equally valid subjective truths. Recognize that all subjective truths...
Read MoreIf money corrupts everything it touches does that mean that the richest countries are the most corrupt? No, and thus no. Money is not corrupt. However, people too often are. Money is merely the means through which we transfer value. Some people, to benefit themselves, seek to...
Read MoreDo corrupt democracies lead to dictatorships? Not precisely. Dependency is the enemy of self-reliance and self-governance. Dependency produces entitlement. Entitlement leads to corruption. And corruption compels authoritarianism. The true enemy is, therefore, a lack of self-reliance and self-governance—i.e., a lack of responsible free behavior. The dependent people must...
Read MoreWhat are the benefits of social democracy? It depends. To the socialist: It is a non-violent path to dependency and eventual authoritarian socialism. To the capitalist/free person: There are none. It is creeping dependency until freedom and capitalism are eliminated. For example, presently, the progressives agitate for democracy in America. One...
Read MoreWhat difference does charisma make in a leader? I believe that charisma, per se, is compelling to the unsophisticated, whereas identity collects the hopelessly ignorant. And, the level of sophistication and ignorance of a society waxes and wanes. I hope we have passed the cyclical nadir. ...
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What are the best examples of political strawman arguments? I believe the “strawman” argument is used in an argument. It works by inaccurately positioning the opposition's view as readily defeatable with one’s existing argument or observation. However, these days, left and right do not debate. They are...
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