Moderation
Found this on a forum. The subject was Jimmy Carter and the fact he commented that "Some Christians who I know very well, very devout people, believe a certain interpretation of Revelations, that in my opinion are quite weird."
Someone by the nickname of JoeyCollins pointed out the following:
It's lose/lose for Carter with both the moonbats & the wingnuts.
He's not a "good liberal" because he doesn't hate the "Zionists" enough.
He's pisses off conservatives because he doesn't accept everything Israel does as automatically right.
He pisses off conservatives because he did not/does not use his religious convictions as a wedge issue (like Bush).
He pisses off liberals because he actually has religious convictions.
He pisses off conservatives because he was/is a member of a political party that is "pro-choice," "pro-gay" & reality-based.
He pisses off liberals because he probably doesn't blindly adhere to the notion of evolution as a quasi-religious explanation of creation like all "good liberals" do.
He pisses off conservatives because he is intelligent & thoughtful.
He pisses off liberals because he is really a "big tent" Democrat, unlike the majority of Democrats who post here.
Salutations and greetings J. Collins! You have discovered that "A good Judge renders a verdict that pisses off the plaintaff and defendant." Carter is getting must better doing it too.
Carter plays the role of a moderate well (maybe the last one) which is admirable. I don't agree with everything Carter says but it's his approach that counts; Moderate thought. I agree more with Mr. Colllins. I think Liberals and Conservatives equally wreak of shit and regardless of the methods used by either side, they accomplish the same goals, the loss of individual freedoms. Hey, who needs them anyway? Don't they just get in the way of security and free trade. Shouldn't we be managed as resources? I don't know the answer
Which I would like to state, for the record, that I am not a liberal or conservative.
It appears politics and the vary shades associated with it is an eloborate shell game played out for the benefit of the superstitious masses of people clamouring to be consumers. It's a new religion: The state.
Mr. Bush promised to be a "uniter, not a divided." In a feel good world this sounds so warm and fuzzy I almost want to curl up in a wool blanket and sip hot chocolate (my golden lab faithfully by my side after fetching my "wicked good" slippers). He's the perfect person to love or hate, there is no middle ground ("You are either with us or against us.") It's the perfect binary argument. One minus one is one.
Moderate thought is extinct. The POTUS has so effectively polarized people and issues that anyone sitting in the middle can be branded an extremist wing-nut. If you are are moderate surrounded by people either wing, your moderation cannot fit neatly into the "party line," hence you are a wing-nut.
Interestingly, wing-nuts can be tightened or loosened by hand. Screwed on too tight, you are a Conservative. Too lose, a Liberal. Very binary, kinda hip, kinda now, kinda WOW!
