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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: JBTFD who wrote (81123)5/31/2007 5:32:55 PM
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"The fact is with many righties, even when it is proven in a court of law that their leader has been corrupt, it doesn't put a dent in their blind belief in their ideology."

ehh ... I'm tempted to just say, "So what?" but I wont because it is an important concern of mine also.

There are people so psychologically bound to a group that they stand in support of the group, headless of good or bad conduct by the group. This is very close to my definition of extremism. Those who violate the founding principles of the group to advance some secondary agenda of the group are extremists.

It is the commitment to some group or partisan agenda, that justifies (in your own mind) the abandonment of reason, truth, and just conduct. The cost is a principled identity of self.

If you are to abandon all reason for the sake of loyalties to a group, if you will limit justice to better devote yourselves to dogma, if you are to deny conscience and compromise purpose or principle to claim your places on this Earth among fellows, let my place be a cave and let my fellows be those who join me in my separation from the likes of you all.
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