Thom Hartman says that
Hobbs and others believe the only reason why we don’t routinely murder each
other all the time is because we fear the death penalty, otherwise we’d do
it. So if a person had terminal cancer
he, by this theory would be in grave danger of going on a homicidal rampage. Also because Hobbs sees man is basically bad,
unless he is rich, therefore he can’t be trusted with money he didn’t earn from
the government. But of course rich
people who inheret their wealth like George W Bush and Donald Trump can be
trusted with their wealth because they were born into money and so the elect of
God. Hartman’s theory was that the way
we determine who should govern us is to see who is blessed of God. While the Calvary Chapel people don’t talk
about wealth, or didn’t use to, that
saying to someone “I see you have the blessing of God” isn’t a simple
observation but a moral evaluation of this person being a “worthy” person,
unlike someone like me who isn’t “blessed of God”. Shawn Hannity was talking about Statism in
today’s show. He’s always accusing the
left of statism when in truth the shoe is on the other foot. It’s liberals who believe in “power of the
people” and democracy and local control.
The right doesn’t want too much local control if they pass the wrong
kind of laws like on pollution or gun control.
Think abo ut it. For the Neo Cons it’s not about hating this
thing called “government” or “the state” but rather it’s all about a love of
power and wealth. The Church is like the
State, which has been pushing its nose into people’s business for a long
time. They have this saying among
themselves, “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God”. The average person might say “so what?” to
that. But the Church won’t let you get
off that easily. Naturally they have a “salvation”
remedy for that. And even if it means
you have to be burned at the stake to enforce their “rule of law”, then the
Church is going to do that. Calvin can
talk about free will, but his actions belie another more fatalistic
philosophy.
Donald Trump is
replacing James Clapper who is head of the Director of National
Intelligence. Former Indiana senator Dan
Coats will be a new director of National Intelligence. The buzz now is that the new guy is really
going to shake up and dismantle things. Right
now Clapper heads up all sixteen government intelligence agencies. Today Clapper testified before congress
supporting the view that all sixteen intelligences agree that Russia is
responsible for the hacking. It’s kind
of funny that after 9 – 11 we ballooned the beaurocracy and now have the Homeland
Security Department. As Thom Hartman
points out this term of “homeland” is Germanic in origen. It used to be an alien term to US ears.
In the news four Black
guys attacked, beat up a white mentally disabeled guy and said they hated white
guys and accused him of being a Donald Trump lover. The repeated lie is spread among people like
Shawn Hannity that somehow the liberals of this country turn a blind eye to
such crimes of “reverse racism” because it doesn’t fit their statist political
agenda. They don’t even like the term “reverse
racism” because they say “there is only one kind of racism” or something. In point of fact it’s accurate and proper to
call these “hate crimes” and acts of bigotry against another race. After all they say they attacked him for
being white and not mentally disabeled. But
I would maintain there is a clear distinction between a “hate crime”, which is
one localized act, rather than racism per se because racism is basically
endemic in society today. It’s been
institutionalized. Liberals point out
that it’s just not physically for whites to suffer this same form of
institutionalized racism as Black people have.
It’s also more than absurd to say that President Obama has espoused
racism in his administration.
Donald Trump and the
Republicans in congress now want to pull all of the funding for Planned
Parenthood because they say “If so much as one penny falls into the hands of
abortionists than it’s blood money or something”. Christian radio makes much of the notion that
money is “fungable” and that a dollar given for health services for women in
general could just as well be spent for abortion, and the only way we can be
sure it isn’t is not to give Planned Parenthood one red cent. We’ve had the Hyde amendment for thirty years
now. We’ve managed to work around it all
these years. Conservatives say that
government is the enemy but this an absurd statement. The Declaration of Independence itself
states that “Governments are instituted among men”. So we NEED government. Government provides a necessary function and
to claim otherwise is to be some absurd libertarian. It’s a little strange that when Ronald Reagan
was elected he began to implement the party platform of David Koch and the
libertarians. Basically this is their
dream platform whether they admit it or not.
Only three or four percent of the money spent by Planned Parenthood goes
for abortions. I think we who are
against abortion can live with that. It
might be called a necessary evil to promote the greater good. This is government’s job to serve the
people. Republicans forget this. They see government as the sort of “Economic
Royalists” FDR talks about in a 1936 campaign speech. Hobbs believed in the divine right of
Kings. This is their starting
point. You have no rights and you only
get “grace” if the King looks at your wallet or breeding or something and
thinks you deserve it. I thought Americans believed in rights and
something called liberty under law.
After all the motto of police departments is to Protect and Serve. I see very little protecting or serving of
any kind in a Trump administration. Thom
Hartman claims that John Dean said that about twenty percent of the population
believes in authoritarianism. If it’s
true somehow that twenty percent managed to win the last election- - and all of
us have to live with the results.
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