Letter: Bipartisan squabbles undermine progress
Just go read this great letter from David Hackathorn.
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Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
— Horace Mann
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
— Horace Mann
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES. Much PAIN but still time. BELIEVE. There is GOOD out there.We OPpose DECEPTION.
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3 comments:
Took your advice, read the letter. A solid read, although the writer does slightly seem to absolve the left in the dealings of which he speaks. Perhaps that's because he was writing in response to a similar letter that did nothing but rip the left and completely absolve the right of any wrongdoing.
The fact is, it happens on both sides, nowhere, in my opinion, more awfully than by the Republicans who refused healthcare to 9/11 first responders this week.
But, after reading the letter I was drawn to J.J. Casserly's new piece and found it to be a far cry from anything I ever expected to see bylined by the "former newsman and author." It, as well, was a good read and I was wondering what your thoughts on it were?
I think it's intellectually dishonest to blame right and left equally for what's going on in our public discourse. The right has maintained a knowing and implacable campaign of lies, vilification and naked power-mongering going back to the Reagan years, and today it's worse than ever. But, like all diplomacy, I accept that dishonest rhetoric is often more likely to bring about better results.
As for JJ, I think this week's piece has a few good sentiments mixed into his usual mishmash of ideology, ignorance and truly awful prose. I just can't imagine how anyone could read "not the star of David, but the Death Star" without sniggering, sorry.
I'm not saying blame equally, but blame both because both are to blame.
As for J.J., let me clarify--and i brought this upon myself by calling it a good read--it threw me with his position, but his writing was kind of painful to get through.
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