[Grovenet] Someone Who Makes Sense...

[Meredith Bliss]

Perhaps. But most R's are either so enthralled with the current scoundrels, or 
are so enamored of being in control of a one-party system that they are 
willing to overlook the faults of the "sliver" even as they were unwilling to 
overlook the faults of the speaker. When you embrace the evils, doesn't that 
go beyond simple guilt by association? Who was it that said that if you wear 
a mask long enough, it becomes frozen to your face?

But I return again to Thomas Merton, who, as always, goes to the root of the 
problem:

"Collective life is often organized on the basis of cunning, doubt, and guilt. 
True solidarity [speaking here to poets] is destroyed by the political art of 
pitting one man against another and the commercial art of estimating all men 
at a price. On these illusory measurements men build a world of arbitrary 
values without life and meaning, full of sterile agitation. To set one man 
against another, and to express the measurement in terms of cost or economic 
privilege and moral honor is to infect everbody with the deepest metaphysical 
doubt. Divided and set up against one another for the purpose of evaluation, 
men immediately acquire the mentality of objects for sale in a slave market. 
They despair of themselves because they know they have been unfaithful to 
life and to being and they no longer find anyone to forgive the infidelity. 
Yet their despair condemns them to further infidelity: alienated from their 
own spiritual roots, they contrive to break, to humiliate and to destroy the 
spirit of others." (from Message to Poets, February, 1964, which makes a lot 
more sense to me than anything from a politician.)

On Sunday 15 October 2006 10:05, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> "You cannot blame the entire Republican party for this reason. The entire
> government of the United States, the Congress, the White House and
> increasingly the courts for the last six years has been in the total
> control not of the Republican party but of the most ideological, the most
> right wing, the most extreme sliver of the Republican Party."

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Meredith Bliss --- www.rdrop.com/~mbliss
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