It is unfair to lump the majority with a few bad apples, yes, America has the KKK and Europe have Neo-Nazis, but that does not mean the majority acts, behaves, and believes the same way.
The moral majority is not given credit for shifting their society away from these types of people, but they still exist as they did years ago.
Yes, moral standards are deteriorating in societies around the world, I can agree with that
@amano.kenji Slavery⌠In the form of cheap migrant labour still burns deep in the heart of many Democrats to this very dayâŚ
The KKKâs first grand wizard was Nathan Bedford Forrest⌠After the Civil War Forrest helped found the Ku Klux Klan and was active in the Democratic Party⌠An ex-Confederate general and prominent slave trader⌠Forrest even spoke at the 1868 Democratic National ConventionâŚ
Experts and Historians agree that factions of the Democratic Party did majorly contribute to the Civil Warâs start and the KKKâs (Violent white supremacist group) founding⌠the KKK attracted many ex-Confederate soldiers and Southerners who opposed Reconstruction, most of whom were DemocratsâŚ
âEveryone knows that Abraham Lincoln fought to free the slaves, but he also created the Republican Party, and was the leader of it to help fight to free the slaves, yet itâs said that most black people still vote for Democrats who fought to keep the slavesâŚ
You know which Party to vote for in November and support and elect the RIGHT side of historyâŚ
Neither the Democratic nor the Republican parties of today are like their 19th century forebearers. By the late 1960s, the national Democratic Party had abandoned its former support for legal segregation and enjoyed strong support from Black voters, while Republicans had embraced a white backlash to voting and civil rights to build their party in the South.
The Democratic Party is the longest-existing political party in the US, and arguably the world. But in its over 180 year existence, itâs completed a remarkable ideological and geographic transformation. Originally a staunch defender of Southern slavery, the party now wins the support of most nonwhite voters. Once an advocate of rural interests against coastal elites, the party now draws much of its strength from cities and coastal areas. These maps tell the tale of the Democratic Partyâs origins, its various metamorphoses, and the sources of its strength â and weaknesses â today.
23 maps that explain how Democrats went from the party of racism to the party of Obama - Vox
Whatâs going on today as we speak
Pollsters and pundits are fixated on whether former President Donald Trump will once again break Democratic dominance in the âblue wallâ states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. But Republicans have a chance to break something much more substantial: the Democratic coalition.
Eight years after Trump coalesced white working-class voters under the Republican banner, heâs now making inroads with Black and Hispanic voters. Poll after poll shows Republicans closing the gap with Democrats among these demographics, which is a five-alarm fire for the left.
Since 2008, Democratsâ strategy has depended on cleaning up at the ballot box with four key groups, including Black, Hispanic, single women and millennial voters. Two of the four legs are now wobbling, increasing the likelihood that their electoral hopes come crashing down.
Democrats never imagined that Black and Hispanic voters would abandon them. Two decades ago, the left widely believed that minority voters would form the backbone of an unbeatable liberal majority in the 21st century. Since then, Democrats have tried to drive turnout among their coalition by focusing on divisive issues. For single women, they focused on abortion, and for younger voters, climate change and canceling student debt. For Black and Hispanic voters, meanwhile, Democrats have emphasized grievance politics â warning about systemic racism and anti-immigrant sentiment.
Democrats are guaranteed to double down on this approach between now and November, hoping to lure back more minority voters. But liberal leaders should instead ask why so many Black and Hispanic voters have turned rightward in the first place. The answer is simple: The Democratic Party is ignoring the issues they care about most.
More Black and Latino voters favor Trump. But GOP still needs to change its message.
Both the left and the right will lead to the same slaughterhouse. Thatâs why I donât vote. I focus my resources on moral education. Moral education is the only way to improve the world.
Voting isnât the way out of the mess.
The problem is that most people are order followers. They think following orders is moral. It isnât. Following orders led to many genocides. People who understand objective morality donât follow orders. They follow their conscience.
As long as people are order followers, we cannot expect things to improve.
People sometimes feel morally good about having their candidate in office even if that candidate is morally corrupt
Moral relativism doesnât just include particularly bad people like KKK and nazism and communists. It includes most people alive today. According to surveys, most people(more than 66%) answered morality is not objective.
There are different flavors of moral relativism. Some flavors seem benign. Some look terrible. But, as long as moral relativism is most peopleâs moral foundation, bad things will happenâŚ
Most people who believe morality is not objective look like good normal people in everyday lives. But, their moral relativism keeps them susceptible to things like communism and nazism. Moral relativism is a critial weakness of humankind.
Moral relativists are only accidentally moral at best. They cannot choose to be moral because they donât have a solid understanding of objective morality.
You make some excellent points and go deeper than people can imagine.
Most of the people who believe morality is objective cannot explain objective morality. I can explain it, but the ramifications are a lot to explain.
Thus, the world is a mess. If you donât understand objective morality, you cannot define your natural rights. If you cannot define your natural rights, you cannot protect your rights. How can you protect something you donât know? Can monkeys protect their forex accounts if they donât understand money?
This is why people are losing their natural god-given rights left and right.
Thatâs why I am going to focus my resources on moral education. If I have some money to spare, I donate it to moral educators.
Morals define our character on a personal level and are our guiding principals and values to what what we believe is right and wrong, stemming from an internal set of beliefs and influenced by upbringing, religious beliefs, and lived experiences.
Ethics dictate the inner working of a social system and are based on moral codes adopted by members of a society. Ethics outline standards of right and wrong in social, professional, or legal contexts.
Morality understanding is as varied as ppl who attempt to comprehend - our preceptions differ.
Homer was in the back of a truck dressed as a cow - he could peek out between the slats and saw a sign âlaughter houseâ.
He was happy - thing is he missed the âSâ at the beginning of the sign.
In that case, Ethics takes over
A societyâs ethics can also change within itself, as in some countries where force child marriages with men are now considered unacceptable, a societyâs ethics will improve.
The situation in America may be the first time in history where ethics have deteriorated, Instead of improving.
Our job is to align our perception with objective truths. Morality is as objective as gravity. We can align our perception to the law of gravity, but gravity wonât cater to your perceptions.
Objective morality consists of non-aggression principle(Donât initiate harm onto other sentient beings) and self-defense principle(You have a right to defend yourself with any weapon). 7 deadly sins of objective morality are rape, murder, theft, tresspass, assault, willful deception (that leads to deaths), and coercion.
Objective principles can be known. Objective morality has always been known by a small minority of people who studied the occult science. Morality can be understood in scientific manner. One scientific moral equation is that collective freedom is proportionate to collective morality.
People who donât understand objective moral principles cannot choose to be moral. They will be accidentally moral at best. That means any freedom we get will be accidental at best. We canât hold onto our rights if we are accidentally moral.
I can go deeper, but thatâs the gist. Objective morality itself is quite simple, but the ramifications can be a lot to explain.
Different people seem to have different definitions of ethics.
I donât yet have a good grip on ethics, but I understand morality.
Robert F. Kennedy says Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Trump in CNN interviewâŚ
Iâm surprised CNN gave him air time knowing that heâs running against Biden for the nomination and know that he isnât on board with their nonstop Trump TDS rhetoricâŚ
I admire him for having the guts to say the things he says⌠Heâs absolutely right about Biden being a huge threat to democracy⌠Biden has banned RFK from ballots⌠Think about thatâŚ!
How evil and how desperate are you if you try to scare your voter base about Trump while refusing to let another candidate on the ballot? The enemy is already in the White HouseâŚ
Biden is the only president to censor political speech⌠SC justice KBJ is worried that the 1st amendment might limit governments ability to censor, and thinks that would be badâŚ
Thatâs not a slippery slope to tyranny⌠Itâs an elevator shaftâŚ
Morality is more about what the individual believes to be acceptable to them and their own personal behavior, while ethics is about society and what they consider acceptable to them
If you suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, skip this Jim Rickards article â you wonât like what he says.
Dear Clint,
I know that April just started, but the November election will be here before you know it. And the upcoming months are going to be fascinating â and not necessarily in the positive sense.
We all know that wild cards from a possible criminal conviction of Donald Trump to a strong third-party showing by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to a sudden withdrawal by Joe Biden due to his visibly impaired physical and mental health could take the best constructed analysis and stand it on its head.
At the same time, itâs not difficult to estimate a likely winner based on the best information available today. Where do things stand right now?
That winner would be Donald Trump going by recent polling showing both head-to-head and also including third-party candidates.
Trump is ahead in the polls, a situation that heâs not exactly accustomed to. He won in 2016 even though the polls showed him losing. He never led in a national poll in 2020.
Of course, polls arenât foolproof â much depends on the size and composition of the sample and any biases of the polling firm. Things can always change between the polls and the election and probably will. That said, Trump is not just leading in some polls, heâs leading in all of them.
Using the Real Clear Politics data (an average of many polls), Trump is ahead in the national poll by 46.6% for Trump to 44.9% for Biden.
Of course, the U.S. does not have national elections; the winner of the election is determined on a state-by-state Electoral College total. Still, the national lead is significant considering that Trump never had a national lead when he won the White House in 2016.
If electoral votes were tallied today with no toss-up states, Trump would win 312 electoral votes to 226 for Biden. Thatâs an Electoral College landslide for Trump.
When the polls are narrowed to include only the seven battleground states that will in all likelihood decide the election, Trumpâs lead is even stronger.
He has a 3.9 percentage point lead with 47.4% for Trump and 43.5% for Biden. The news from those individual states is even better for Trump. When we look at the seven battleground states (again, a more relevant measure since the presidential election is won at the state level), Trump has the following leads measured in percentage points:
Wisconsin +1.2, Arizona +5.4, Georgia +5.0, Michigan +3.7, Pennsylvania +1.0, North Carolina +5.0 and Nevada +4.3.
The leads in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and Nevada are not just comfortable, theyâre huge (you may recall most recent elections in swing states have been decided by less than 1%).
The only key battleground states that are close are Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, both within the pollâs margin of error. But Trump was trailing in both until recently so theyâre trending his way. Trump also leads in the betting odds by 45.4 for Trump and 37.2 for Biden.
This is all landslide territory. And a late substitution of Gavin Newsom or Michelle Obama for the enfeebled Joe Biden would not change the outcome. In head-on-head contests, Trump leads Newsom by 17 points, 51% to 34%, and Trump leads Michelle Obama by seven points, 50% to 43% based on the latest Rasmussen polls.
Thatâs a pretty sad B-team for the Democrats when they lose to Trump by larger margins than the senile Biden.
Finally, thereâs a considerable body of political science research that shows voters in presidential elections tend to lock in their positions well ahead of the actual election date. The election is still seven months away. The research suggests opinions are not likely to change significantly between now and Nov. 5.
Voters donât need to learn more about Trump. Heâs a known commodity who people either love or hate.
Those who are put off by Trumpâs vulgar demeanor, narcissism, lack of self-awareness and âmean tweetsâ arenât going to change their minds between now and November. Neither are Trump supporters who think that Bidenâs a senile, corrupt, incompetent president whoâs flooded the nation with illegal immigration.
My view is that bad personal habits are irrelevant as long as good policies are pursued. Thereâs no point in hoping Trump will change. Seventy-seven-year-olds donât change their style.
OK, but what about third parties?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West and Jill Stein are all mounting strong third-party runs and the No Labels third party may yet join the fray. What happens then?
Itâs more bad news for Biden. Jill Stein has solid ballot access because her Green Party has been seeking ballot access for years. RFK Jr. is on the ballot in New Hampshire, Hawaii, Utah and Nevada. Just yesterday, he qualified to be on the ballot in North Carolina. And expects to be on in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and South Carolina soon.
That may not seem like a lot, but it covers four of the seven battleground states that will decide the election.
Meanwhile, Cornel West is on the ballot in Oregon, Utah and South Carolina and is targeting Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Arizona. That list also covers four of the seven battlegrounds.
Hereâs the worst news for Biden: Polls show the third-party candidates taking more votes from Biden than Trump in a world where Biden is already behind.
The election is still seven months away, but events are definitely breaking Trumpâs way.
The difference for investors between another Biden administration and the return of Trump to the White House could not be more stark.
The Biden administration has been characterized by excessive regulation, pointless mandates as part of the Green New Scam, open borders bringing crime, drugs and cartel influence into the United States, disastrous wars in Ukraine, Gaza and now the closing of the Red Sea-Suez Canal passage, increased segregation of Blacks in colleges, the destruction of 50 years of progress in womenâs sports by allowing competition by men and a long list of other ruinous policies.
The first Trump administration was characterized by business and personal tax cuts, reduced regulation, no new wars, outreach to nuclear rivals such as Russia and North Korea, tariffs on unfair trade by China, a concerted effort to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States, demands that NATO members pay their fair share for mutual defense and a secure southern border with Mexico.
Trump also made a historic three appointments to the Supreme Court, which has emerged as practically the last bastion of constitutional order and the rule of law.
Thereâs good reason to believe that a second Trump administration would offer the growth-oriented policies of the first administration with sane policies that will end the progressive excesses of the Biden administration.
But there are too many wild cards in play to make a firm prediction at this point. Even if Trump wins the election, will the Deep State and/or Democrats conspire to prevent him from taking office?
Buckle up, weâre likely in for a wild ride.
Regards,
Jim Rickards
for The Daily Reckoning
[email protected].
The ride wonât be as wild as many people expect
That version of morality is moral relativism. School system teaches moral relativism.
Objective morality is what the creator ordained for all intelligent sentient beings before humans were created. Actual morality is tangential to what individuals believe. Itâs what the creator ordained.
Objective moral principles are the law of Godâs government. This law is understood and voluntarily obeyed, but people are not directly punished for violating it. The punishment for collectively violating it is slavery of various forms. Chattel slavery isnât the only form of slavery.
The punishment is that immoral people will not be free from each other. Immoral people enslave each other. Usually, people at higher levels of hierarchy enslave those below. Hierarchy is the punishment for being immoral. The creator doesnât punish you. Immoral people punish each other.
There is no higher government than Godâs government, yet most people ignore the highest government there is. We have to acknowledge that there is a higher governmenr than human government.
The creatorâs law is king. I choose the creator over lower governments anyday. The creator is my president. I donât actually like the creator much, but the creator is simply better than any human substitute that wants to take over the place of the creator.
Godâs government requires moral education which itself isnât mandated.
Under Godâs government, every sentient creature is one family. If at least humanity became one family, we wouldnât need to invent the concept of money in the first place. Its strength lies in unity which we donât have, yet.
If at least humans are not one family already, then we are being played with divide-and-conquer strategy.