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I agree that the outrage is media driven because the idea of white-on-black violence fits with “The Narrative”. You know what “The Narrative” is – the storyline that reflects the left-of-center politics and social beliefs held by editors and journalists across the country. Note how the high rate of black-on-black violence is ignored on our country. If black lives truly did matter, wouldn’t that be the larger story?
One other thing about the Oregon coverage. I teach at a college that is predominantly black (95%+), and at the time one of my students mentioned how the sheriffs just let the occupiers alone and if they were black the cops would never have done that. I think I mentioned that if the occupiers actually did violence to any person, then I’d be sure that the cops would not be patiently waiting around for the standoff to end.
I don’t think this movement is about liberalism, it is based on hatred of whites that the Obama administration has poured gasoline on.
I agree that there is an element of “getting back at the white man” inherent in the whole thing. I think when people like Obama or Minnesota governor Mark Dayton give their premature opinions on things, it’s a bit mistake.
Yes, liberals jump to conclusions that confirm their own bias, that is not an exclusively liberal problem though. If it were how do you explain the rise of Trump? Trump is famous for spouting off on policies that not only ignore objective reality but are also impossible to implement and getting cheered for it by conservatives, examples include building a border wall and expelling illegal immigrants and muslim refugees.
Trump had the advantage of celebrity which pushed him to the top. Also, he is an authoritarian, and that personality trait undoubtedly attracts people regardless of his politics. Now that he’s the Republican nominee, he’s going to be getting more and more support simply because the support has to go somewhere. Conservatives need to vote for someone, and the vast majority aren’t doing write-ins.
But I have to note that the excesses of people on the left and the right aren’t equal in terms of their damage. Generally speaking, those on the right want to be left alone, whereas those on the left require the state to get more involved in people’s lives. I don’t know about you, but I’m generally going to side with people who tell the state “leave me alone” rather than those who say “please regulate my world”.
I just read through these old posts and I’m glad that I wrote them. It helps to have a diary of sorts from weight lifting a few years ago because I just got a gym membership about three or four days ago.
I basically took off the last two years of my life from lifting. I did it sporadically for maintenance but lost motivation to lift for muscle gains. I started gaining more weight than I wanted, so I said enough’s enough. Plus, I’m weak. The first day back, I was only able to bench press 155 lbs. about 7 or 8 times before getting really tired. My body is all sore and I’m looking forward to it healing. I predict that it will take my body about 3-4 weeks of lifting before it starts to change the way it processes carbohydrates and protein.
I think it exposes a lot of the knee-jerk reaction that has entered into the liberal establishment, which is just another symptom of the problem with liberalism: emotions trump reason. If a police officer kills an unarmed black passenger in a car, then yes, there is a problem. But is that problem automatically “racism”? No, not necessarily. It could be poor police training. It could be a reckless individual. It could be a trigger-happy officer. It could be racism. The problem is that we don’t know until the facts are gathered and analyzed.
The problem is that they automatically assume X when explanations Y and Z are also viable explanations. And when other people don’t also fall in line behind explanation X, they start to cause problems because they don’t get their way.
So who was your chosen candidate during primary season? I have realized that primary season is when the really important decision is made in picking the best candidate over a mediocre candidate. It seems like the Republicans have been settling on mediocre candidates over the last few elections as far as conservative principles are concerned (McCain, Romney, Trump). From that list, I would say that McCain is probably the most conservative.
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I see parallels to the bread and circuses of ancient Rome, though I realize my feeling are not exactly unique. I see national politics in part as voting in the person who will do the least amount of harm. Of course with Trump, this is a mixed bag, but I still see him as doing less harm than the other person. America is not in a good situation right now, and it doesn’t look to be getting much better in the future.
Hmmm….I guess I didn’t realize you were not a Gingrich fan as I would have presumed. I like Gingrich’s mind a lot. His intellectual approach to politics and policy is kind of a counter to Trump’s bombastic approach, so perhaps they complement each other in that regard. I don’t know that Gingrich would be the most shrewd political choice as VP, but at least he’d help coalesce the conservative base.
Wow! The Newt Gingrich-Toynbee theory takes on a whole new light now that Newt is being considered as a vice presidential candidate pick for Donald Trump. In the Drudge Report poll I saw the other day, Gingrich was the top choice for the VP slot as chosen by readers. Could the “departure and return” of Gingrich’s political career become reality in the coming months?
Happy Fourth of July weekend, Scout! I know that Donnie and Ski are still around and I converse with them from time to time over at Christian-Legacies.com. Haven’t spoken with Donroc in a while.
I switched WCF from SMF to a WordPress site when the conversations on WCF were getting really sparse. I wanted to try something new and make this a front-end blog site with the forum in the back. I then realized that a WordPress forum would not have all the same capabilities as the old SMF forum.
After taking a break from the forum for about 9 months (and thinking of closing it down), I decided to revamp it and start writing blog posts on whatever topic I wanted, and without fear of offending people’s sensibilities. If people came to read, good; if not, no problem.
Anyway, I still enjoy reading some of the old threads we have here on WCF. My knowledge of history has evolved over the years – gotten stronger in some areas and weaker in others. Funny how that happens.
These kinds of historical resolutions might be gimmicky in a positive way, gimmicky in a negative way, legitimate as a matter or justice, or wrongful in themselves.
I watched the complete first season and it was quite good. The very end of the season provided a strange twist that I’m not sure everyone would appreciate, but we’ll have to wait to see what happens in Season Two.
If the Constitution has been forgotten or ignored, it’s because the interpretation of the Constitution has made it as such. In a system in which interpretation is allowed, then there is bound to be bad interpretation from time to time. A bad interpretation from a long time ago will lead to many “reasonable” interpretations today that are predicated upon that bad decision from before. Only by eliminating those bad interpretations from yesteryear will out present interpretations improve.
