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