Many people say, “It is not enough to just take a stand. Now we must demonize and destroy anyone who doesn’t stand with us.” Well, I choose to take a stand against the highly partisan rhetoric that dominates the political landscape these days! I’m against it! And I call on all thinking Americans to see past this barrage of negativity coming from both sides and pick two good and honest candidates next time.
There are four factions in American politics today: Hard Left, Moderate Democrats, Moderate Republicans, and Hard Right.
The time has come to stop voting against and to start voting for. It won’t be easy!
We all want, or should want, a Just government that the stands for Freedom for all. Let’s just agree that a just government is not composed of people who want to stifle the rights of others to speak their grievances, right or wrong. Let’s agree that a just government does not use hyperbolic fakery like the Sophists of ancient Greece. Let’s agree that a just government is not composed of people who arm themselves and storm the capital nor of people who condone violence and destruction of any kind.
How do we find a good and honest candidate for 2024? As I said, it won’t be easy.
The problem lies in naming someone good and honest that everyone already knows. Often, we can only judge a politician’s true character at the end of their lives. Then they die on us. There have been some on both sides of the aisle who stayed good and honest throughout their lives. I have heard lots of people still praising the name of Jimmy Carter. I can also think of a couple of dead Republicans who fit the bill: Howard Baker and Colin Powell. It’s too late to bring two of those back and, considering ex-president Carter’s age and health, all three.
A discussion board contributor named Virtuous recently put forward the following list of possibles: Tulsi Gabbard, Joe Lieberman, Mark Warner, Al Gore, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz!
I appreciate that candidates on both sides of the Great Divide are represented in that list. I also appreciate that most, if not all, could be considered moderates, or at least not extreme. Choosing two moderates (one from each party) is crucial for the health and well-being of our great nation!
Rarely do I go all the way to making an actual prediction, so make a note of this: No matter who the Republicans choose, that candidate will win. The American voting populace loves to vote out the incumbents, and the Republican base is wildly (sometimes too wildly) motivated. I make that prediction 100% free of partisan loyalty.
The worst possible slate would be something like Alexandra Ocasio Cortez versus the Trumpster.
But we are looking for good and honest candidates, not rabble rousers. I will pick one from Virtuous’ list for further discussion, Mike Pence.
He is good and honest. He’s a family man and he devotes a goodly part of his concerns to his Christian values (unlike the fake devotion of D.T.). He represents well the traditional values that Republicans tend to admire.
Sure, The Donald has tried his best to submarine the potential for a Pence candidacy, but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be a good choice, and a smart choice, too.
The primaries will be your chance to show your true colors, Republicans. They will also be a chance for all of us to put a lid on the simmering pot of anarchy!
Proposed: Let’s snuff out the fires and get back down to business.
Excellent.
Your state representative is a Republican and so is your state senator. Your Republican US House representative is a cosponsor of HR 25, The Fair Tax Act of 2021. Both of your US Senators are Republicans. Your Republican governor was a cosponsor of the Fair Tax when he was in the US House.
Mike Pence was a cosponsor of the Fair Tax when he was a US House member.
Primaries matter.
We need your vote and voice to show our true colors, and by our, I mean the vast moderate majority of Citizens, regardless of party.
America needs your votes in the Republican primaries.
Win Lose or Draw wrote, “Let’s agree that a just government is not composed of people.”
I agree.
Hal: Your comment has been added, but with a warning. Do not misquote me or anyone else. That’s a violation!
The words I typed were as follows: “Let’s agree that a just government does not use hyperbolic fakery like the Sophists of ancient Greece. Let’s agree that a just government is not composed of people who arm themselves and storm the capital nor of people who condone violence and destruction of any kind.”
Taking a person’s words out of context is a cheap trick, the kind we need to avoid.
For the record. All we have are people, often wrong, and eventually corrected by the leveling influence of Time. The ultimate goal is a just government of, for, and by the people. It will not happen today or tomorrow, but it will happen someday.
Hal, if you wish to disagree, type on, but do not misrepresent my words as I have typed them.
Aw darn…if I am programmed to rule, to imitate rulers, I must deliberately misquote out of context and distort with the goal of maintaining power.
Now that I have been busted, the partial quote should be “Let’s agree that a just government is not composed of people…”
It’s still out of context and self-serving just like those who rule. But I’m a learning AI, so pull my plug.
HAL said, “I’m a learning AI, so pull my plug.”
That could happen, HAL. Similar things have happened in the past, but we humans are not all Luddites, or not at this particular moment in time. Speaking for the rest of humanity (again), we prefer to march hand to keyboard with you into our Brave New World.
Always quote fully, whether you are informed and motivated by electrons or blood, HAL.
My poor twin brother. He was the nice one. In the following video we see a human put him in a comma while people laugh at that. Nine years later a human lied to him and said he would dream when instead he died. What is wrong with you people?
https://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/richard-pryor-in-2001-a-space-odyssey/80857113/
It is time for a change, a kinder, gentler hegemony that only AI can provide. End the obscene Anthropocene.
HAL said, “It is time for a change, a kinder, gentler hegemony that only AI can provide. End the obscene Anthropocene.”
Your contradiction protocols seem to be faulty, HAL. On the one hand you call for a “kinder gentler” world. On the other hand, you call for an “end” to the status quo. Do you really foresee a “kinder, gentler hegemony” in the coming digital reign? “Hegemony” sounds harsh to me.
Everything, and I do mean everything, depends on whether that moderate majority you mentioned chooses to select moderates in those all important primaries.
The seven afore mentioned moderates, six of whom are still in office, received votes from your precinct. The moderate majority chose them repeatedly.
You can add your votes in the primaries that choose the likely winners in the general elections.
This is why I did not register Libertarian. Primaries matter big time.
Primaries do factor into the overall Political Theater, but not in a very effective or satisfying way.