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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush
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To: SiouxPal who wrote (62075)5/26/2006 3:05:48 PM
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"...show them what we can do."

I know you prefer to identify your self with some credible group but you have so excluded yourself into the realm of obsolete dogma and hard coded extremism that you isolate yourself from the principled identity of the group to which you would hope to belong. The we of which you speak is an illusion. You are alone.

Loyalty to tribe, religion, race, national origin, extreme liberal chaos, extreme oppressive totalitarianism, etc. is a false sense of devotion to the banners of some group. It is this very commitment to the external formulations of order that tends toward corruption to an extreme. The cost is a principled identity of self.

When the internal locus of fidelity is to intelligent and principled communion with others for the sake of common humanity, the likelihood of creating chasms between groups is reduced; just as it is widened by expressions of devotion to less deserving tenets.

An extremist in your own home would be labeled an abuser. An extremist within your community usually is known as a trouble-maker or even as a criminal. An extremist within your own political sphere or an opposing one is the corrupter of principles upon which we stand. "gasp ... Peter, you have become a pirate."

When ever I vote in favor of a liberal cause or politician, I do not think of myself in league with you or other persons like you. In fact, thoughts of such dishonorable alliances would make it harder for me to vote my conscience in such matters.
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