Things Republican debate audiences have cheered:
Things Republican debate audiences have booed:
Seriously. What the fuck? Sure, the usual suspects will spin this, maybe employing a no true Scotsman fallacy. But really, this is hateful behavior and so utterly anti-Christ.
Frank essentially agreed with the Gandhi quote (I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.) in one of the other threads. He clamored for a return to Christian values--of course, mainly of the entirely lip-service variety. Praying in schools would do nothing to help the poor and the sick. Having Jesus plastered everywhere in the public square (like it isn't anyway, can't drive two blocks without seeing a fucking cross) isn't going to do anything to help the poor and the sick. Restricting the rights and freedoms of those who disagree with the divinity of Jesus is not going to do anything to help the poor and the sick.
What will help? Groups of people working together to actually deal with the problems head on. Hmm...if only there were some way to help organize these groups of people...what if they were to collectively decide to pool society's resources and direct them to actually feed the hungry and treat the sick? But oh no, that would be socialism! Evil evil socialism!
We don't have very many Christians in America anymore. We have Free Market worshipers who have co-opted Christian imagery and used it as a facade to hide the underlying greed, selfishness, and nationalism that serves as the foundation of their new religion.
There will always be fraud, waste, and abuse. Minimizing that should certainly be a goal--but not the primary goal. The primary goal is to get the services to those who truly need them. Just as in the adage of "I would rather ten guilty men go free than one innocent man go to prison," I would rather ten people abuse the social safety net than one person who truly needs it fall through it.
This new breed of Free Market worshiper wants us all to walk on the tightrope without a net at all...while they shake the rope and take away our balancing rod.
- "Enhanced interrogation" (torture)
- Texas executing the highest number of prisoners of any state
- Uninsured people dying from lack of medical treatment
- It's poor people's fault they don't have better jobs or jobs at all
Things Republican debate audiences have booed:
- Ron Paul mentioning that it might be a good idea to understand the motives behind 9/11 (and that they aren't as simple or stupid as "they hate us for our freedom")
- Gay active duty soldiers
- The motherfucking Golden Rule of all things
Seriously. What the fuck? Sure, the usual suspects will spin this, maybe employing a no true Scotsman fallacy. But really, this is hateful behavior and so utterly anti-Christ.
Frank essentially agreed with the Gandhi quote (I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.) in one of the other threads. He clamored for a return to Christian values--of course, mainly of the entirely lip-service variety. Praying in schools would do nothing to help the poor and the sick. Having Jesus plastered everywhere in the public square (like it isn't anyway, can't drive two blocks without seeing a fucking cross) isn't going to do anything to help the poor and the sick. Restricting the rights and freedoms of those who disagree with the divinity of Jesus is not going to do anything to help the poor and the sick.
What will help? Groups of people working together to actually deal with the problems head on. Hmm...if only there were some way to help organize these groups of people...what if they were to collectively decide to pool society's resources and direct them to actually feed the hungry and treat the sick? But oh no, that would be socialism! Evil evil socialism!
We don't have very many Christians in America anymore. We have Free Market worshipers who have co-opted Christian imagery and used it as a facade to hide the underlying greed, selfishness, and nationalism that serves as the foundation of their new religion.
There will always be fraud, waste, and abuse. Minimizing that should certainly be a goal--but not the primary goal. The primary goal is to get the services to those who truly need them. Just as in the adage of "I would rather ten guilty men go free than one innocent man go to prison," I would rather ten people abuse the social safety net than one person who truly needs it fall through it.
This new breed of Free Market worshiper wants us all to walk on the tightrope without a net at all...while they shake the rope and take away our balancing rod.
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
-Sagan
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
-Sagan
