Political beliefs
"One who acquires political beliefs early in life and rarely changes any of them is incapable of learning from experience." I came across this quote in Marilyn vos Savant's column. To me it is a very clarifying phrase. It explains why many people hold on to certain beliefs even in the face of irrefutable evidence that they are wrong.
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As a kid, I was a south Alabama segregationist (as were all my peers) who began to have doubts when I heard MLK's "I have a dream" speech.
By my early 20s I was a rabid liberal who thought socialism may be a good thing. Being against the Vietnam War (still am) and then being 1969 drafted into the Marines had a lot to do with that.
Later as a civilian I voted for Jimmy Carter.
After four crappy years of Carter, I voted for Ronald Reagan.
This since then conservative and not a racist me only learned of Ayn Rand when I had Netflix send the first Atlas Shrugged movie.
This shows that it is not just liberals (socialists), but also conservatives and libertarians that reject reason.
I read the Declaration of Independence and found
the phrase "inalienable rights". Also, I read about
the Civil War (this is Virginia; Virginia history was
taught as a separate subject from American; however, my parents were from Iowa and Min-
nesota); I thought about the idea of a state vot-
ing democratically to leave the union; but then I
thought that the right of man not to be a slave
must be more fundamental and superior to that.
So, when I was about 12, I thought that every-
body had the right to do whatever he wanted,
provided he didn't touch the body or property of
another without that other's consent (either di-
rectly or by throwing something, for instance);
but then, I thought this did not include the right
to lie about somebody or to get something from
somebody by lying to him. That became my
political creed; however, I did not know how to
validate it until I discovered Ayn Rand (which
didn't happen until I was 15).
Rand remarked that "reason must be Man's only absolute." I agree. It therefore follows that all other absolutes are contextual. If so, then all rational questions are relevant, all answers tentative - subject to the "new."
Not well known. I'm sure there are other less complimentary terms.Also the obstructionists in the Knesset would fit. They 'neither toil nor do they spin' even get out of the way but deride the toil of others and expect to be fed for being multi generation welfare artists.
Sabras seem to be a stiff necked bunch. When we delivered cargo it was sundown to sunup and if a delay heads were on swivels quite unlike US citizens who can go through entire wars in comfort unless of course they wish to fly somewhere..
Jewish people are a mystery they invented communal living and and socialism . One group are gas chamber lemmings and the other are saunch figthters for freedom and http://life.In Israel Sabra is one group and Saudi jews are the one's who won't lift a finger ......
Who knows....
Blacks easy story Republican supporters until abvout 1880 or 1890 when Republicans abandoneed Civil rights and anti slavery position and lost their own way. Democrats always anti civil rights and anti slavery picked up on votes available no other interes until late sixties and then then not much and then Clinton decided to ve civil rights party. prior the Democrats were staunch pro slavery anti civil rights. That lasted until just after Clinton when the Democrats went whole hog socialist fascist and pro Patriot Act. Blacks have no where to go Republicans did the same. 230 years of work down the drain and the blacks got f'd used and abused. Nowhere to turn but then we are the white version with the same problem.......Same thing happening to browns latinos. We need a new party that upholds the Constitution and turns there backs on all the -isms. Else the more level headed who seek change with ballots not bullets will be overwhelmed when the bullets start flying and I can't say I blame them. so all you racists, sexist and religious bigots? I look at you to ways. How you fit in a sight picture and the trigger squeeze. Enemies Domestic. I'm a son of Norway descent and proud of it.
USA and the Constitution love it or don't let the door hit you in the ass no matter where you think it swings. left
or right. As for the Jewish people and others victimized by bigots .... why are you voting for your oppressors and those whose entire philosophy descends through Adolf and Josef Stalin. If you are lemmings or saudis i do not know you. If you are Sabras's i welcome your support and offer ours.
And as for the thin skinned crybabies who cry foul foul. Upper US.
Our society today inhibits real learning, because it's become so protective that people are shielded from having to make hard, desperate choices like our ancestors. When someone has never experienced real hardship or life threatening events, it's easier for them to exercise "magical thinking." Utopian concepts seem all the more credible to a mind unchallenged by adversity.