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Hello Stretch,
Thanks for asking. What DO morals have to do with it indeed?
Trevor Noah asked almost the same question. Here is Marianne's reply:
"I'm not saying anything everybody I know isn't saying. People are having a much deeper conversation than the establishment conventional political dialog presents. I'm simply talking about things that people are talking about. People understand that more is going on that just externalities. People understand that if you want to transform your life you are going to have to address things on a deeper level than just the fixes on the outside.
We need help from a higher power. Abraham Lincoln spoke that way. We are living in an aberrational time when the left has become so over-secularized in it's conversations. When I was growing up, people like Martin Luther King, People like Bobby Kennedy talked about the soul of America, the contest for the soul of America. It's only in the last few decades that the left has become so over-secularized in it's language.
Traditionally, on the right, there has been a focus on private morality, but traditionally on the left there was a focus on the issues of public morality. War and peace - is a moral issue. How we tax the rich in ways that allow the rich to become so much richer and the rest to struggle to even make it - that's a moral issue. The fact that we have millions of American children who go to school every day chronically traumatized in schools that don't even have adequate supplies with which to teach a child to read. If that child cannot learn to read by the age of 8 the chances of high school graduation are drastically diminished, and the chances of incarceration are drastically increased - in the richest country in the world - that's a moral issue. The fact that we have 13 million children who are hungry in this country is a moral issue.
To me, issues of politics should take as much moral consideration and reflection as anything else. And the fact that we have a society where we have made economic principles, not an economic principle that has led us to anything other than the largest wealth inequality in almost a hundred years, 1% of Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 90%, 40% of Americans struggling on a daily basis... WHAT ARE WE DOING???? What are we doing."
I presume she was going to say we have made economic principles more important than moral principles. And she is correct. America made a huge wrong turn when we elected Ronald Reagan. We had a choice then between reelecting Jimmy Carter who correctly noted that “Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns,” and corporate spokesperson Ronald Reagan. We elected Reagan and forgot about the morality of 'turning the bull loose." We got a monetary leader, not a spiritual one.
The bottom line is: making the most money is not always the most moral thing to do, nor is it the right thing to do. What good does it do for our country if the rich get richer and the cost of that is that it is tougher for everyone else to get by? That doesn't promote the general welfare. That promotes the selective welfare. And that is not a moral thing to do. Helping corporations that are worth billions is not a moral thing for the American government to be doing.
Thanks for asking. What DO morals have to do with it indeed?
Trevor Noah asked almost the same question. Here is Marianne's reply:
"I'm not saying anything everybody I know isn't saying. People are having a much deeper conversation than the establishment conventional political dialog presents. I'm simply talking about things that people are talking about. People understand that more is going on that just externalities. People understand that if you want to transform your life you are going to have to address things on a deeper level than just the fixes on the outside.
We need help from a higher power. Abraham Lincoln spoke that way. We are living in an aberrational time when the left has become so over-secularized in it's conversations. When I was growing up, people like Martin Luther King, People like Bobby Kennedy talked about the soul of America, the contest for the soul of America. It's only in the last few decades that the left has become so over-secularized in it's language.
Traditionally, on the right, there has been a focus on private morality, but traditionally on the left there was a focus on the issues of public morality. War and peace - is a moral issue. How we tax the rich in ways that allow the rich to become so much richer and the rest to struggle to even make it - that's a moral issue. The fact that we have millions of American children who go to school every day chronically traumatized in schools that don't even have adequate supplies with which to teach a child to read. If that child cannot learn to read by the age of 8 the chances of high school graduation are drastically diminished, and the chances of incarceration are drastically increased - in the richest country in the world - that's a moral issue. The fact that we have 13 million children who are hungry in this country is a moral issue.
To me, issues of politics should take as much moral consideration and reflection as anything else. And the fact that we have a society where we have made economic principles, not an economic principle that has led us to anything other than the largest wealth inequality in almost a hundred years, 1% of Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 90%, 40% of Americans struggling on a daily basis... WHAT ARE WE DOING???? What are we doing."
I presume she was going to say we have made economic principles more important than moral principles. And she is correct. America made a huge wrong turn when we elected Ronald Reagan. We had a choice then between reelecting Jimmy Carter who correctly noted that “Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns,” and corporate spokesperson Ronald Reagan. We elected Reagan and forgot about the morality of 'turning the bull loose." We got a monetary leader, not a spiritual one.
The bottom line is: making the most money is not always the most moral thing to do, nor is it the right thing to do. What good does it do for our country if the rich get richer and the cost of that is that it is tougher for everyone else to get by? That doesn't promote the general welfare. That promotes the selective welfare. And that is not a moral thing to do. Helping corporations that are worth billions is not a moral thing for the American government to be doing.
