You decide which one has an ancient Greek disease, John Kass, Al Sharpton, Democrat Party, Orwell or Plato?
You Decide, after….
You read John Kass in the Chicago Tribune on Sunday August 29, 2017, Topple a racist symbol – the Democrat Party. HERE
In My Opinion
I surmise King Solomon, after studying and reading the news about the Charlottesville and Confederate Statue controversy might apply the best answer with this Ecclesiastes verse. 1:17
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
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And I gave my heart to know wisdom,…. Which is repeated, for the confirmation of it, from Ecclesiastes 1:13
I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!
and that it might be taken notice of how assiduous and diligent he had been in acquiring it; a circumstance not to be overlooked;
and to know madness and folly: that he might the better know wisdom, and learn the difference between the one and the other, since opposites illustrate each other; and that he might shun madness and folly, and the ways thereof, and expose the actions of mad and foolish men: so Plato (s) says, ignorance is a disease, of which there are two kinds, madness and folly. (Source HERE)
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Great article. Are the Democrats trying to erase history or evidence?
It is amazing that the Democrats built the monuments they now want to destroy. No mention they built them, no apology, no nothing other than accusations against others.
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History or evidence? Great observation and comment.
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History or evidence. If I were a liberal, I would reply to your remark that it is more like they “saw the light:” but the GOP did not yet become enlightened.
Personally I think it has more do do with a condition known as “Psychological set.” It may be preventing them from becoming too detailed in their obsession that only thier viewpoints matter.
For example, in Citizen Toms blog, Doug commented that he reviewed all the details of the Gettysburg Address, and Lincoln was only addressing the Union casualties and not the Confederate casualties during the dedication.
I wonder if his observation into the details may be similar to what I surmised King Solomon explained to the Queen of Sheba based on an ancient wise saying.
If interested read the post explanation and CT blog and comments. in these two links.
https://citizentom.com/2017/08/20/what-you-must-learn-from-white-supremacists/
https://rudymartinka.com/2015/08/19/king-solomon-psychological-set-atheism/
I am not a psychologist other than taking a college course called psychology 101.
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Thanks for all your great insight. Very helpful.
What is bothering me is that something very wrong is going on here. As I mentioned, the Democrats erected all these monuments. Most of them intended to reinforce the Democratic “Jim Crow” culture and laws after the Republicans fought to end slavery in this country. That continued until Republicans fought the Democrats to enact the Civil Rights law of 1964.
History is important. The history is that the Democratic party is responsible for the monuments. That is a fact. No one is saying that or pointing it out. Perhaps the Democrats don’t want people to know or remember that. So, let’s just make the problem disappear.
The GOP was enlightened all along it seems to me. It emerged in 1854 to combat the Kansas–Nebraska Act, an act that dissolved the terms of the Missouri Compromise and allowed slave or free status to be decided in the territories by popular sovereignty. The Party had almost no presence in the Southern United States, but by 1858 in the North it had enlisted former Whigs and former Free Soil Democrats to form majorities in nearly every Northern state.
With its election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and its success in guiding the Union to victory and abolishing slavery, the GOP came to dominate the national political scene and was a champion of civil and women’s rights.
In 1869, the Republican-controlled legislature in Wyoming Territory and its Republican governor John Allen Campbell made it the first jurisdiction to grant voting rights to women.
Every African American who served in the U.S. House of Representatives before 1935, and all of the African Americans who served in the U.S. Senate before 1979, were Republicans.
Why do the Democrats want the monuments gone?
I don’t know why but I do know the history is a sordid one.
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Sorris indeed.
Good info
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Reblogged this on Citizen Tom and commented:
Not terribly familiar with John Kass, a columnist for “The Chicago Tribune”, but scatterwisdom links to one of his columns, one I think we all need to read. It puts this absurd debate over Confederate Memorials into a more enlightening perspective.
scatterwisdom’s post and Michael Wilson’s comments are also highly instructive.
When you read Kass’ column, carefully consider the quote at the end.
Is this the kind of world we want to bequeath to our children and grandchildren, an endless present run by egomaniacs who will tolerate no dissension or criticism.
Does that sound ridiculous? Look at how the Democratic Party now operates in lockstep. Republicans peel off and vote against the party, but if a Democrat does that that Democrat may as well become a Republican. There is something very odd about that.
Consider another quote.
Today Rogers would not be able to say that. Yet consider what the reference for that quote says about Rogers.
Today Democrats detest the Republican Party way too much for that sort of tolerance. They are too busy looking for any excuse to call Republicans racists.
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