Baraka_Guru

You will have to forgive me if I refuse to respect, listen to, and find common ground with hypocrisy. I don't hate the right who are guilty of it, but I will say that a lot of their hypocrisy is based on their own hatred and fear. The opposition to gay marriage and abortion comes from those who would never participate in such things. So why the opposition? It's not like allowing gay marriages and abortions will lead to the right's children turning gay, getting married, and aborting all their little gay babies. What they are doing is foisting their morality on others.

Even if I look for the positives, I run into the problem Tully points out: you can't easily cut taxes at the same time as reducing debt or managing a deficit. It doesn't take much business sense to get that. I can only assume that those who do get it are looking at major spending cuts (but not to the military, surprisingly). So what we get there is a bunch of libertarians who want to pay less tax after gutting, if not eviscerating, social programs.

You see, that's a position I can respect though I don't agree with it. I find libertarians to be selfish individualists for the most part, but at least what they say makes sense.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot