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Saturday, August 9, 2025
Compromising, Perchance Reconciling?
EVERYONE SEEMS TO AGREE that the United States, we the American people are more divided than at any other point in our history since the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. It seems obvious. Compromise and reconcilation are the most often recommended remedies, other than an alien invasion, a swarm of high tech extraterrestrials attacking and uniting us from high above. A bit far fetched, perhaps. As things now stand, compromise in America requires MAGA and the rest of America, which is largely anti-Trump, coming together in broad agreement. Even farther fetched, perhaps. I have often asked myself whether I as an individual (I can't speak for anyone else) am capable of understanding and compromising with Trump and MAGA. I almost always arrive at the followig answer: probably not. Not without the other side compromisng far and away beyond anything they have heretofore shown any inclination or willingness to do,or desire or plan to do. I seriously question the current capability of us the American people to meet in the middle and make up, unless reconciliation is somehow an emergent quality. I seriously question mine. For example, do I really want to deal with people, try to compromise with people who believe that I am, as matters now stand, destened to suffer endless misery and torment in eternal damnation merely because my religious beliefs do not match theirs? People like that seem cruel to me. Or, can I ever truly respect and understand somebody who passionately believes that Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion are harmful and bad, and not only should not be publically promoted, but are actually harmful and bad and should be discouraged? To answer my own question; Most likely not. And how could I, or any reasonably intelligent person, ever want to or be able to find common ground with people who support the banning of books, any book? No book should ever be banned or burned or excluded or prohibited by anybody, anywhere, for any reason. Bad, trashy books must be allowed and will be weeded out naturally and quickly, in the great capitalist free market of ideals and intellectualism. Liberals tend to despise censorship, conservatives and religious folk tend to implement it. There is no compromise to be had here. All csnsorship and book banning is bad. Similarly People who hate the "woke" concept, who consider it to be a monstrously evil ideal, and want to eliminate it from the face of the Earth rather than promote it - utterly baffle me. What's to dislike about being intellectually, emotionally, spiritually awake, unless the word "woke", which means aware of systemic recism in America, is tainted with too much an ebonic overtone? Then too, either religion and government are interlinked, intertwined in America, or they are not. Its one, or the other, take your pick. The Constitution requires them to be seperate, which, in my opinion, is the way it should be. The Conservative evangalical community, Trump's base, begs to differ.They can keep begging, and using their perfidious methods to try to violate the constitution. They are dead wrong, and mustnot be allowed to win this dispute,or come to power to implement their new Christian nationalist constittuion. They must be defeated, and will be. Someone asked Madision why the word "God" does not appear in the constitution. Perhaps annoyed,he said: "We forgot". People who try to steal a presidential election, attemtpt to violently overthrow the American government, try to deport all non white Americans and seek to impose the Christian religion as the law of the land not only must not be offered compromise, they should not be allowed to walk the streets or partake in publlic life as American citizens.
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