Is the American sense of justice and morality dead?
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Is the American sense of justice and morality dead?
Is the American sense of justice and morality dead?
Are those qualities dead everywhere?
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Vigilantism is driven by a sense of justice and morality. That sense is feared by our oligarch and plutocrat owners. That vigilantism, I think, is what used to keep the politician in line and our oligarch owners more generous towards their underlings/us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DK ... r_embedded
Justice and the American Dream were driven by a sense of justice and morality. That sense of justice and morality has been replaced, at the top of the demographic pyramid, and our new owners, by the new sense that the acquisition of wealth is now the moral and just ideal. The oligarchs’ new God is now money.
The rich, in their gated communities, think themselves secure and think that their huge wealth will protect them and isolate them from justice. They do not fear vigilantes as they seem to think that the heart and desire for justice is no longer in the average American heart.
Are they correct?
Are we all willing to continue in such a system where the rich, while driving by the poor, not only do not care for them or their plight, but also take what little the poor have as they drive on by?
I call that theft with the collusion and help of their political elected slaves, eh, politicians I mean.
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DL
Are those qualities dead everywhere?
http://www.c-span.org/video/?328079-1/s ... university
Vigilantism is driven by a sense of justice and morality. That sense is feared by our oligarch and plutocrat owners. That vigilantism, I think, is what used to keep the politician in line and our oligarch owners more generous towards their underlings/us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DK ... r_embedded
Justice and the American Dream were driven by a sense of justice and morality. That sense of justice and morality has been replaced, at the top of the demographic pyramid, and our new owners, by the new sense that the acquisition of wealth is now the moral and just ideal. The oligarchs’ new God is now money.
The rich, in their gated communities, think themselves secure and think that their huge wealth will protect them and isolate them from justice. They do not fear vigilantes as they seem to think that the heart and desire for justice is no longer in the average American heart.
Are they correct?
Are we all willing to continue in such a system where the rich, while driving by the poor, not only do not care for them or their plight, but also take what little the poor have as they drive on by?
I call that theft with the collusion and help of their political elected slaves, eh, politicians I mean.
Regards
DL
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Re: Is the American sense of justice and morality dead?
I wasn't aware it ever had one.
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Re: Is the American sense of justice and morality dead?
For a brief time.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:I wasn't aware it ever had one.
It ended when people lost faith is the government when they murdered J.F. Kennedy.
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Re: Is the American sense of justice and morality dead?
What about slavery? McCarthyism? Segregation? It's always been a shit-hole.Greatest I am wrote:For a brief time.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:I wasn't aware it ever had one.
It ended when people lost faith is the government when they murdered J.F. Kennedy.
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Re: Is the American sense of justice and morality dead?
No better or worse than elsewhere.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:What about slavery? McCarthyism? Segregation? It's always been a shit-hole.Greatest I am wrote:For a brief time.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:I wasn't aware it ever had one.
It ended when people lost faith is the government when they murdered J.F. Kennedy.
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It has also been the world driving force for democracy at least till just recently.
The U.S. seems to have forgotten it's mandate and now refuses to use it's huge war machine to promote democracy.
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Re: Is the American sense of justice and morality dead?
Crap. A LOT worse than many, and it's a young country. We've never had ANY of those things where I come from.Greatest I am wrote: No better or worse than elsewhere.
It has also been the world driving force for democracy at least till just recently.
The U.S. seems to have forgotten it's mandate and now refuses to use it's huge war machine to promote democracy.
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Re: Is the American sense of justice and morality dead?
^^
No skeletons in the closet. How nice for your country.
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No skeletons in the closet. How nice for your country.
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Re: Is the American sense of justice and morality dead?
Slavery, McCarhyism, and segregation are mighty big skeletons to have in ANY closet.Greatest I am wrote:^^
No skeletons in the closet. How nice for your country.
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Re: Is the American sense of justice and morality dead?
I was speaking of your old country.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Slavery, McCarhyism, and segregation are mighty big skeletons to have in ANY closet.Greatest I am wrote:^^
No skeletons in the closet. How nice for your country.
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Re: Is the American sense of justice and morality dead?
Like Africa, where we all come from?Greatest I am wrote:I was speaking of your old country.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Slavery, McCarhyism, and segregation are mighty big skeletons to have in ANY closet.Greatest I am wrote:^^
No skeletons in the closet. How nice for your country.
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