When will we ever learn?

 

Ted, I actually chuckled over the idea that you feel that folks on this list(Blind Democracy), think America is Liberal. 

Politically we have been moving further and further Right, until the Middle of the Road is somewhere East of Nixon. 

But I agree with Miriam.  It doesn't matter what way the nation leans politically.  There many Liberals who would slit my throat for a dollar and there are Conservatives who would stop to help me out of the gutter. 

Moral integrity was never based on Liberalism or Conservatism.  Just take a quick tour down our nation's history.  It was under a Liberal administration that Japanese Americans found themselves incarcerated.  What was all that about?  Were the Japanese Americans more likely to turn on their fellow Americans than were the German Americans?  Gee, could skin color have something to do with it?  Did it make it all right because Americans did not rise up in protest?  Did our tolerance of slavery make it okay?  Just because we went along with Jim Crow, was it morally right?  Was it Liberals or Conservatives who butchered their way across the continent, claiming their victims to be "Savages"?  

Liberal, Conservative, Communist, Socialist, Radical, Far Right, Far Left, all are just meaningless labels masking the real truth.  We are a violent people. 

Not just Americans.  They nailed a Peace Maker to a cross over 2,000 years ago just as surely as they shot a Black preacher on his hotel balcony.  Even though I use labels, they disgust me because they cover up and allow us to wave them about like badges of honor. 

  I have no idea what the politics of Sheriff Joe Arpaio are, nor those of the folks who keep him in office.  But I know that he is not of my people.  My people are citizens of the Planet Earth.  We do not judge on color, or accent, or wealth, or age, or intelligence.  Each human soul is a brother or sister.  We treat each with respect.  And we expect the same treatment in return.  Parading folks about in pink diapers and mocking them is not respectful.  Bragging about it in public only proves that the braggart is ignorant.  Bullying only breeds bullies.  But after thousands of years we still have not learned our lesson. 

 

Curious Carl