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Robert-SF
"The Republicans really have been getting away for with preposterously pretending to be some kind of “populist” working people’s party."
Well, they get away with it because they are allowed to get away with it. And at least the Republicans pretend to like the "poorly educated." The Democrats couldn't make their contempt for them more obvious.

Calgacus  > Robert-SF
"The Democrats couldn't make their contempt for them more obvious."

Yup, the mainstream Dems, many lefties quite literally do not know how to talk to ordinary people without insulting them. One illustration is that there is a fairly good, well-meaning site doing Gods work - that tries to edumucate pipples to NOT do this.

But I pointed out how they were unintentionally doing what they thought they were avoiding - by calling others beliefs "beliefs" and their own beliefs "facts" or "truth". They were trying, but they couldn't get rid of their superciliousness. Super-silly. I'm often supercilious too, but by intent. :-)

They never posted my comment. :-(

Agelbert > Calgacus 
🤔 I understand you are talking about religion. It is mission impossible to tell anyone, from any monotheistic religion, that their religious beliefs "are no more truthful" than the different religious beliefs of others.

Yeah, I get that that is what you believe, as most here at Class Struggle, but good luck convincing those at that web site that you are right and they are "superciliousness" and "Super-silly".

Religious folks have a very poor sense of humor. Your attempt to make them reason out of their errors with a lighthearted comment was probably perceived as mockery. Religious folks don't handle mockery with aplomb, to put it mildly.

As a Christian, I am grateful for your comment about the good work they are doing. It is good to see evidence that some religious folks out there urge others to practice the Benevolent Compassion that only Anti-Christians posing as Christians (i.e. MOST "😈 Church" attending American Christo-fascist, Capitalism Worshipping Greedballs) feel "justified" in going full Orwell on.

As to TRUTH, perhaps it was Pontius Pilate that started the  "What is Truth" 👉 "It's all relative" 🙄 ball rolling, but it didn't really take among the "educated" until about 150 years ago.

IMHO, not popular among my fellow Progressives (to put it mlldly), TRUTH is not now, or ever will be, "relative". There is only ONE Truth. Yeah, I firmly believe Jesus Christ was not engaging in semantic hyperbole when He said He is the Truth, or when He said,"Before Abraham was, I AM".

That said, the (certainly NOT "relative") subcategories of Truth that do not involve religion or a Deity, such as physical constants, atomic weights of elements, the refraction index of water at a given temperature and atmospheric pressure, the speed of light in a vacuum, prima facie evidence of a crime, scientific measurements, etc. are based on the FACT that there is ONE TRUTH, not some "situational ethics" sliding scale of "truth".

The moment you put Truth on a sliding scale, you left Truth AND ETHICS behind. For human societies to go the "it's all relative", "I'm okay, you're okay" route, as ours is obviously DOING, is certainly not "superciliousness" and "Super-silly". But, that morally bankrupt route IS irrefutably regressive, though Progressives will argue till the cows come home that "doin' yer own Libertine thing is Progressive". NO WAY!

Just as science CANNOT function with relative "truths" about  what something is made of, our society is not viable with no IMMUTABLE ETHICAL STANDARD. In fact, though Progressives get hives every time it is brought up, the progress of SCIENCE BY the formulation of the Scientific Method came DIRECTLY from the monotheistic religious belief that there is ONE GOD and ONE TRUTH, NOT from the "Enlightenment", so often erroneously given FULL credit for human advances in scientific knowledge.

All this goes back to the EMBRACE of Social Darwinism by the most educated and influential segments of our morally bankrupt civilization. Thus, as long as TPTB, and too many out there believe, as they do, that "might equals right", then the belief that "we are a viable species" is a Sick Joke.



Read more:
https://ongoingclassstruggle.blogspot.com/2022/11/yes-republicans-working-class-pretense.html

Here is the "voting" and 🐘😈 Representation PROBLEM with our so-called "Democracy": 

CleanTechnica

March 1, 2023 By Carolyn Fortuna



Full article:
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/03/01/rethinking-capitalism-what-can-it-mean-for-cleantech/

AGelbert COMMENT: The "isms" are not the PROBLEM. The PROBLEM is the SOCIAL DARWINIST IDEOLOGY they (e.g. Capitalism, Fascism, Communism) are based on.

Social Darwinists, thanks to Darwin's racist pseudo-science, believe that ethics based principles are 'limitations pretending to be virtues'. To them, ethics are 'feel good illusions' that humans invented to pretend our species has empathy. To Social Darwinists, empathy is irrefutable evidence of inexcusable weakness. To them, all who are guided by ethics are deluded fools that should be eliminated from the human 'apex predator' gene pool for the "good" of our species.

Enthusiastic converts to Social Darwinism have, to this day, used the language of evolution to frame an understanding of the growing gulf between the rich and the poor, as well as the many differences between cultures all over the world. The explanation they arrived at, and continue to use to justify biosphere trashing profit over people and planet, regardless of any alligator tear filled mendacious claims to the contrary, is that businessmen and others who are economically and socially successful are so because they are biologically and socially “naturally” 🙄🤔 the fittest.

Conversely, they reason that the poor are “naturally” weak and unfit and it would be an error to allow the weak of the species to continue to breed.

The ideology of the Social Darwinist is indistinguishable from the despicable ideology of NAZI Germany, clearly exemplified in their brutally enforced morally bankrupt concentration camp law: “Eat your own bread, and if you can, that of your neighbor.”

This heinous "Apex Predators have a DARWINIAN RESPONSIBILITY to BE as PREDATORILY EVOLVED (SEE: Steal everything that is not nailed down.) as possible" ATHEIST WORLDVIEW is the socially destructive tsunami now engulfing human society. What all the entrenched insiders among the parasitic, predatory (i.e. Social Darwinist) elites and institutions don't dare admit publicly, though they celebrate that privately, is that to protect themselves from consequence, making the rest of us sacrifice everything else is what they-the-Apex-Predators have a DARWINIAN DUTY to DO. After all, Homo sapiens is "just the result of random undirected processes", so the more you can "enlightened self interest" DO to get MORE POWER by causing, directly or indirectly, the death of human competitors for the species gene pool high ground, "the better".
This is how America works now: in-your-face corruption is not just 💵🎩🍌 accepted, it's  😈🍾 glorified.

Let's score America's wealth and power elites, regardless of party or political persuasion:
Integrity: zero.
Austerity: zero.
Restraint: zero.
Humility: zero.
Responsibility: zero.
Accountability: zero.
Sacrifice for the common good: zero.
Thrift: zero.
ALL the above scores are perfectly descriptive  of the Social Darwinist modus operandi/vivendi.

Frugality and prudence, once accepted by all human cultures as sine qua non, has given way to massive excess by TPTB (and too many of the, brainwashed by the "education system", non-rich populace) and a level of 🐗👿🐊🦍🐉 craziness in culture ethical humans never imagined they would experience.

📢 It REALLY IS the Social Darwinism, stupid!