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OxQQme

(2,550 posts)
Sat Sep 2, 2017, 07:22 AM Sep 2017

Neal Gabler - The Conversation We Should Be Having

> "When you are in a crisis, you need change. The only way to change America, really change it, is to change its values. The only way to change American politics, really change them, is to incorporate truly moral values into them and hold those who don’t accountable.

Trump is a danger to this country not because he is ignorant and incompetent or because he has no regard for constitutional rights. He is a danger because he is amoral and has no regard for basic human values — and because he legitimizes amorality. Fight him on political grounds, where power is the only thing that matters, and you are likely to lose. Fight him on moral grounds and you cannot lose, because he has no moral armor with which to defend himself.>"

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/09/01/conversation-we-should-be-having

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Neal Gabler - The Conversation We Should Be Having (Original Post) OxQQme Sep 2017 OP
Interesting take on the situation. longship Sep 2017 #1

longship

(40,416 posts)
1. Interesting take on the situation.
Sat Sep 2, 2017, 08:05 AM
Sep 2017

I am not sure how one opposes Drumpf on moral grounds without coming off "holier than thou", but maybe this is a worthwhile discussion.

On the other hand, morals have been within the right wing's ken for some time. Maybe it's time we took that issue back.

But how?

R&

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