When, where, and why is it wise or foolish to move on from what occurred in the past?
The Chicago Tribune column titled: ‘Isn’t it time we moved on?’ reported this following question?
So, what is all this noise about forming a congressional commission to investigate? Do we really need that?”
The Purpose of This Post
Is to relate an ancient wisdom verse, an idiom, and opinion to the question of when, where, and why it is wise or foolish to move on from either a good or bad experience in life.
King Solomon
Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions. (7:10)
Idiom -don’t beat a dead horse
Don’t continue to focus on some issue or topic that is no longer of any use or relevance.
What’s My Point?
Congress just voted to investigate the mob attacks of the Jan 6 attack on the Capital. Yet, there were hundreds if not thousands of attacks on private citizens and property in the past year as a result of mobs. The question of why just investigate the Capital mobs which implies that understanding of violence on Congressional Representatives is of greater importance than the citizens in the Nation they are supposed to represent.
Meanwhile, the core reason of the attack on the Capital is citizens not believing the integrity of the 2020 election. Other news articles are reporting that the current recount of the election results in Arizona is meeting resistance from election officials even though a Judge ruled to the legality of a recount. In a previous post, I brought up the question of why there are laws for States to hold election ballots for a period of time if not to examine the ballots.
My point is to question the wisdom of the looking back to determine why we should or should not look back at what occurred in the past to investigate minds that are psychologically prone as the writers stated to “You didn’t see what you thought you saw. You got it wrong, you misunderstood. Your memory is playing tricks.”
In My Opinion
I frankly want to know the truth if the 2020 election was or was not stolen because of the short time period the law gives to election officials to certify elections.
Add the fact that some tabulator machine where on line to the internet and videos of election workers running the same ballots through the machines more than once. Add that election observers where order out for a period under false pretense accusations while election workers were not. Add that some states did not have any election laws to verify signature on ballots be verified against voter registration signatures. Affidavits not sufficient proof…., etc. etc.
Truth is something that can be proved if there is hard evidence such as paper ballots to investigate.
Investigating opinions in the minds of people is not hard evidence worth investigating because the question of truth or opinion will always be questionable.
Any investigation of the when, where, or why of the past without having hard evidence is a waste of time or taxpayer money. That is what the judges ruled as inadmissible when the original lawsuits of Trump.
However, the ballots are hard evidence that can be used to prove the truth, integrity, and accuracy of the 2020 election to decide if mail in ballots should be used in the future.
In my opinion, Congress should be concerned about the truth of the 2020 election before they pass any new election laws to make it lawful to repeat the same core reasons that brought about the January 6 attack on the Capital.
That is to know if the use of mail in ballots approved during the Covid pandemic was wise or foolish.
You Decide
Should we follow the ancient advice and idiom to don’t look back to the older days when a voter had to appear in person to vote is wise or foolish?
Should we allow Congress to pass new election laws to avoid ever having to beat a dead horse truth or opinion?
Was the last two-year Congressional investigation the cost taxpayers over 50 million dollars to prove the integrity of the Trump Russia conspiracy an example: to not look back” because of lack of hard evidence, truth, or opinions?
If Interested
Read the opinions in the Source Links below
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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Rudy u Martinka 
Oh dear, Rudy… this post alone shows how completely submissive you have become to Trumpism.. the Big Lie, and complete denial. Up to now I hadn’t really thought you were this far “gone”. You really believe this stuff.
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Doug,
Belief has nothing to do with choosing political sides, preferences of persons, or submissiveness.
It has all to do with truth.
Think about this, if something is truth can be proven, why would anyone not want or be fearful of the truth.
There is another idiom you should consider.
“Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.”
Especially if you are listening to an used car salesman politician, in my opinion.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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Doug
Additional advice for you and me to discern. Some people age but their minds still discern as a youth and need the following advice to wise up.
“You are young yet, my friend,” replied my host, “but the time will arrive when you will learn to judge for yourself of what is going on in the world, without trusting to the gossip of others. Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
Whether the above applies to either of our opinions or choices of leaders makes no difference if we judge based our opinions on gossip.
Only the truth will matter when we are judged for judging ourselves or others.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
Believe Nothing You Hear, and Only One Half That You See –
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“Believe Nothing You Hear, and Only One Half That You See”
Heard all that through the years as well. But I never took that as a “rule” but rather a “caution” in being too hasty in accepting things at face value without doing some personal exploration. It’s a call to engage critical thinking… whatever that might mean.
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Doug,
Critical thinking in our contemporary times is what in ancient times was known as discernment wisdom.
Come on Doug. Aren’t you interested in knowing for certain that the Big Lie was really a Big Lie?
How can anyone really believe the truth from either major political party without a real audit of the ballots that the law states must be kept for 22 months presumably to use for an audit?
Especially since the covid pandemic was used to allow a different way of voting for the first time without State’s legislators approval first.
Or in other words, would you be willing to stake your life on the accuracy of the Big Lie same as our founders did when they fought the Revolution?
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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The states in question all had multiple counts, all had Republicans as part of those counts, and there were some 60 different court challenges that didn’t work given there was little evidence. There was no exposed vote fraud conspiracy anywhere. No hidden whistle blowers have come forward to reveal secret manipulations in voting counts. It was anticipated for weeks ahead of the election that the early voter returns would show an initial bias toward Trump… and as the mail-in ballots, preferred by the bulk of Dem and Indy voters, could moderate that considerably. In reality it meant Trump lost… and of course, he blathers without evidence, that the election was rigged. Of course, Trump supporters can’t believe their guy lost.. so obviously the election was a fraud. There’s not proof. That crazy and totally idiotic count going on in Arizona is a sham.. and not a couple other states might go along with it.
No, Rudy… zero evidence anywhere of some big election conspiracy. I have never been a conspiracy nut because of one reason… human beings cannot keep secrets. No one is getting paid off; there is not deep state nonsense.
But Trump keeps hammering away because his base loves him for it. It’s impossible Trump could lose!
In the meantime, red state legislatures are passing these crazy voting laws for NO reason.. just speculation. It’s totally nuts. The truly sad part is the complete moral breakdown of the Congressional GOP. Surrendering their morality for Trump money and the pursuit of political power. It’s sickening. This GOP trait of wanting to restrain minority votes goes back to before Reagan.
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Doug,
Apparently you are one of the trusting rather than the skeptic types of politicians and news media..
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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More like “If it walks like a duck…….”, Rudy. So many “impartials” and unbiased have been involved in repeated re-counts and evidentiary searches for legal challenges that couldn’t pass legal scrutiny, that my application of critical thinking will naturally assign a measure of credibility to the relative obvious conclusion that there was no wide ranging election fraud. I also consider the SOURCE of all the accusations of election fraud and that’s Trump himself because we’ve just had four years of his lies and bombastic untruths simply to feed to his personal base built on victimization, grievance, and fear about losing a white majority.
Faith? That fills in the space between things we know and can prove.. and those things we can not. Seems wide election fraud has been proven a fantasy. The greater question is WHY do you believe it at all? Other than FOX.. and that pretty much means Tucker Carlson and the other commenters of Conservative nonsense that are NOT journalists…. what part of any mainstream media has convinced you that there was fraud?
A few grainy videos? If Trump says it, it must be true?
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Doug.
Frankly I dont watch much new on tv anymore it because it is too depressing.
I read the chicago Tribune in the morning and choose what folly to comment in my blog.
Frankly, some days I could write almost as many blogs as published articles.
Sad
Regards and goodwill blogging
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It all comes down to a person’s level of bothering to critical think as best they can on what they see and hear… and… being willing to allow what sources they might use to help FORM their opinion and NOT support some already-established personal bias. One problem is that if a person is subject to believing conspiracy theories (that, of course, are not “theories” but promoted as fact) then they are already biased and facts/truth won’t matter. As is the problem now… lies and facts exist together to represent “truth”.
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Doug
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Regards and goodwill blogging.
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