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| Author's Note | 09/24/2005 |
A virtual index to the whole JimMcCord.com website follows as inspired by the Katrina debacle. Click on hyper-links for cross references. |
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| POLITICAL PROGNOSIS FOR 2006 The mid-term Congressional elections can begin the end of a national nightmare testing American gullibility to demagogic rhetoric. Maybe national sanity can be restored; now that we've exhausted a fling with one talkative extremist.
The current administration's incompetence has finally been etched into a “neglected beauty of the obvious.” Common people bore the brunt of Katrina with national resources unsettled and squandered on a wild-goose chase in Iraq.
Radical idealogues can't run the country without common-sensical thinking. (They believe instead.) They retain humanity's childish traits (their way or the “highway.”) They're not even honest conservatives. Genuine ones are willing to compromise in order to provide a cautionary anchor for the newfangled notions of liberals. Real conservatives help maintain an even keel for human development—along a spectrum of rational discourse—ideally gravitating toward a golden mean of common understanding. These radicals eschew though the rational center. They've fallen off a deep end of the spectrum; dominated as they are by political and religious nuts. "To
those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but
the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry,
discipline is required. For faith,
as well
intentioned as it may be,
must be built on facts, not fiction. Faith in fiction
is a damnable
false hope."
Author's Art - Jackson Square (New Orleans) by Jim McCord © Jim McCord
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