Goodness is not automatic.
It is cultivated, both individually and collectively.
American conservatives believe political, economic and social reality works best after abolishing "one of the poles."
Try that with electricity.
To Prevent An Obama Victory,
Republicans Can Only Craft "Red Meat" Legislation
Obama's Detroit bailout has resulted in the creation of 14,000 jobs.
Keystone Pipeline may produce as few as 35 (thirty five) full time jobs.
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton
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