http://mainstreetradical.com/2009/05/14/do-we-keep-our-republic-or-just-let-it-slip-away/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:32:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://mainstreetradical.com/2009/05/14/do-we-keep-our-republic-or-just-let-it-slip-away/comment-page-1/#comment-948 DTK Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:50:53 +0000 http://mainstreetradical.com/2009/05/14/do-we-keep-our-republic-or-just-let-it-slip-away/#comment-948 How do we re-dedicate ourselves to principle without a morality based in absolutes. The relativism of our day, that morality depends on temporary circumstances, has no solid foundation, only the wind...and the wind reaps worldwind. When compromise is out of the question, anger becomes the chief motivating force and civility goes the way of being shouted down. When principle is a matter of opinion, then there is only politics. When celebreties get away with murder and petty crimes are routinely committed as too numerous to pursue, when our jails are over-crowded as we try to build a trickle-down service-based economy, when our leaders cannot speak the truth for fear of reprisal of special interest group opposition, when we cannot talk intelligently about the facts of any issues because we corrupt discussion with our personal spin, then we are living with blinders on. We can hope that what we give to others will be given to us in return, but expect what you do to others to be done to you. What is your reason for hope? How do we re-dedicate ourselves to principle without a morality based in absolutes. The relativism of our day, that morality depends on temporary circumstances, has no solid foundation, only the wind…and the wind reaps worldwind. When compromise is out of the question, anger becomes the chief motivating force and civility goes the way of being shouted down. When principle is a matter of opinion, then there is only politics. When celebreties get away with murder and petty crimes are routinely committed as too numerous to pursue, when our jails are over-crowded as we try to build a trickle-down service-based economy, when our leaders cannot speak the truth for fear of reprisal of special interest group opposition, when we cannot talk intelligently about the facts of any issues because we corrupt discussion with our personal spin, then we are living with blinders on. We can hope that what we give to others will be given to us in return, but expect what you do to others to be done to you. What is your reason for hope?

]]> http://mainstreetradical.com/2009/05/14/do-we-keep-our-republic-or-just-let-it-slip-away/comment-page-1/#comment-133 marcia Devere Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:15:35 +0000 http://mainstreetradical.com/2009/05/14/do-we-keep-our-republic-or-just-let-it-slip-away/#comment-133 Do I detect a MOVEMENT to retake America and our Constitution??? Do I detect a MOVEMENT to retake America and our Constitution???

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