Alabama On My Mind

[mburbank]

Okay, now I have time.

"your political and social beliefs are in direct opposition to what the "working hard" philosophy is all about. "

You think that because you are emotionally, morally, and intellectually stunted. My personl behavioral code is just that. Personal. The only person I'm in charge of is me. I don't have the narcissistic belief that everyone worse off than me could do as well as I do if only they had a better work ethic becuase I know everyones life is different. In the rare cases where I'm pretty sure the fact someone is worse off than I is their own doing, it doesn't efffect my compassion. Know what one of the biggest iinfluences on my outlook toward others is? The New Testament. Now I know, for you if you don't buy the entire story then the teachings themselves are worthless. But I learned something from the fable of the Fox and the Grapes without thinking fox's can talk.

"The common "progressive" or liberal in this day and age is not about working hard. "

What you know about the 'common progressive' could dance on the head of a pin with room left over for your tolerance, but that's of no consequence. I don't care what the 'common progressive' does. I care what I do, and how I behave.

" They believe profection is achieveable"
'They' may believe whatever 'they' want. I believe no such thing. I take a very dim view of human nature in general. I think societal perfection is probably as impossible as being like Jesus. But I don't think it hurts to strive. I don''t wan't perfection NOW, I want us to TRY all the time. We won't do that either. But we might try off and on to take care of each other, love our enemy, turn the other cheek. Which would be a whole lot better than not at all.

"You follow a path that is ripe for corruption because the progressives truly don't have a path to follow."
And you follow a path which is already corupt, embraces coruption, and write sentences where the first cllause is diametrically opposed to the second.

"The only guiding light they have is to be anti-their opposition."
If it were the only guiding light it would be a good one, concidering the opposition. But there's also social justice, economic justice, the environment, corportate responsability, fighting al Quaida instead of various unnconected sttes and making some actual effort to shore up our real homeland defense, like hardening nuclear plants and chemical factories and funding cops and firemen to repalce the ones off not fighting Al Quaeda. If all those thing are anti-opposition, blame the opposition.

"Their political platforms are about as big as a Post-It."
Big post it. Dean's platform is pretty fully formed at this point, and readily available. Your ignorance regarding it doesn''t effect it in any way. As for the wish to defeat Bush, it will be hard to be president wiithout doing that. I know, it's so boring the way an opposition candidate always wants to dfeat the incumbent, but what are you gonna do?

The CP USA is of absolutely no concern to anyone except paraonoiac right wing conservative loonies. What would be the point of their fielding a candidate? They re marginalized to the point of absurdity. he KKK doesn't have a candidate either. Should we take this an indication they support Bush?