tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749602.post116314338922605361..comments2023-06-27T05:09:27.049-07:00Comments on AIN'T NO gOD: Geohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422024151262255579noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749602.post-1163438112074069202006-11-13T09:15:00.000-08:002006-11-13T09:15:00.000-08:00I do not know who anonymous is, but I thank him/he...I do not know who anonymous is, but I thank him/her for the restrained and civil response to my posts. Look, I know that I could (and did in the past) get behind moderate conservatives. I'm for balanced budgets as long as they aren't balanced on the shoulders of those less fortunate than me. I'm for separation of church and state as moderate Republicans in the past understood it. I'm for limiting power to the powerful, whether they be political or financial powers, but not for limited government while financial power runs roughshod over the rest of us. <BR/><BR/>There's a balance in all of this, but we can't have balance as long as fundamentalists, who are by definition not for balance and reason, control any one party. Balance calls for some admission that one might be wrong, that there is not only one right way. <BR/><BR/>I've been wrong plenty in my own life so there's my admission. I recall the days when moderate Republicans abounded. They were called Romney and Rockeller. Where'd all those men go? I could see Dems forging all sorts of compromise positions with men and women like them. The worst thing that has happened to this country and its ability to meet and overcome its problems is the fundamentalist takeover of the Republican Party which has divided our nation in very damaging ways. <BR/><BR/>Let me be honest. For the first time in six years, I feel as if a great weight has been lifted from my shoulders. I'm already sleeping better (I mean that literally), and it's not the Republican Party I feared. It's the fundamentalists who control that Party I fear. Just honestly look at history. Whenever any sort of idealistic fundamentalism (Nazism, Communism, any sort of theocracy) gets into power, the average citizen, like me and you, find ourselves in prisons and jails and courthouses if we are in a party or belief system that is at odds with the dominant power. Idealists just aren't very nice when they have power. They're okay when the come up with ideas and when they inspire us to better action, but when they get power, all holy hell breaks out!Geohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07422024151262255579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749602.post-1163435181242387842006-11-13T08:26:00.000-08:002006-11-13T08:26:00.000-08:00You have written in anger over the years, and I si...You have written in anger over the years, and I sincerly congratulate you on achieving your political goal, and I wish that it will decrease some of the bitterness in your heart and restore some belief in a system that was never broken.<BR/>As a Republican I am surprised the win wasn't larger. We will try to be a loyal opposition, with fair play and faith in the benefits of open debate. I sincerely enjoyed the following website essay and hope you do too.<BR/>http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000136.html<BR/><BR/>I do enjoy the things you copy and paste.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com