--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Denise Evans <dmevans365@> wrote: > > > > I agree - seems like "consciousness" and "compassion" are > > completely missing and demonizing has set in, consistent > > with one of the key criteria of "ideological" warfare. > > Well, except that compassion is the very basis of Democratic > ideology. > > Kind of a catch-22 for those for whom compassion is a core > value: It's hard to show compassion for folks whose ideology > makes a virtue of *lack* of compassion and who want to > eliminate compassion from public policy. Those who lack > compassion, on the other hand, don't face a similar conflict > between their ideals and the urge to demonize their > ideological opponents. >
The ideology of Libertarian selfishness makes me too pissed off to find compassion in my core values for them. They should all go live in Somalia.
