(10-15-2017 06:10 PM)umbluegray Wrote: (10-15-2017 12:33 PM)stinkfist Wrote: (10-15-2017 08:11 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (10-15-2017 08:03 AM)DavidSt Wrote: (10-15-2017 07:38 AM)bullet Wrote: What will it take to pull the Crucible? Someone upset that it can make a community look bad? Which is, of course, the point. Groupthink and the dangers of it.
That is why wealth, Religion and state supposed to be separate. Now, we have all three mixed in the White House.
We used to have all three mixed centuries ago. It was called feudalism.
Democrats want wealth and the state conjoined. Socialism, communism, fascism, crony capitalism are just peas in the same pod.
Republicans want religion and state conjoined. I don't want either.
with one exception.....the republicans are getting ready to change that stance, or the currently filled positions will have a new face after '18 mid-terms are completed....
it will spell RINO with a definition that is different than the current.....
(I) is happening with simply a different tag (as you compared/contrast in your second posit with the dippos)
the religious right is essentially dead.....the one's that don't acknowledge such simply won't vote or cast one that is meaningless....
You can say that. I'll just continue to happily take the new federal justices DJT is appointing.
At this point he's appointed more federal judges than Obama did his entire first year.
I guess I'll finally end up being ok with judicial activism.
no question about it....I'm hip-deep on board with how this is progressing.....
just b/c I'm an atheist and socially tolerant doesn't mean I don't want judges that are conservative that rule based on law and constitutional doctrine....
my belief pattern will always require a sense of balance and consistency based on how the law is defined and applied.....
however, what I've seen increase in my lifetime is too many judges lose sight of their duty by design and attempt to 'create' law through judgments based more on personal/public opinion..........
that's simply not how that branch should function....
that's why the federal and state legislative branches should ALWAYS be making a best effort to design laws that are simpler for the WHOLE and not continually infighting due to reelection for their limited constituency......it's another reason I hate ******* politics.....
there's more clusterF laws in this country that are outdated, overstated, overburdening, over complicated, etc.......that's what those stupid ***** should be focusing on and not the uproar o' day.....today's legislative branch is nothing more than knee jerks in a quagmire with a quicksand footing......
this is why term limits in both the senate and house should be priority number one across the board....
pay 'em a fancy salary each year and toss 'em back to the private sector after 8/12 years......they'll be just fine as will the country as we will then begin to attract the best minds instead of the what currently is being housed....
implement major reform how lobbyists are allowed to operate.....that would be even better......
there's a reason it's become a #swamp
and there's a reason I can only hope DJT continues to tear it a new ******* arsehole....