/2015/12/08/you-sir-are-not-a-conservative/ the art of nature Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:40:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 /2015/12/08/you-sir-are-not-a-conservative/#comment-181 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:40:09 +0000 //#comment-181 Damn right, I’m not. I’m a proud progressive. I blame Nixon – and Citizens United.

]]> /2015/12/08/you-sir-are-not-a-conservative/#comment-180 Wed, 09 Dec 2015 00:46:00 +0000 //#comment-180 Excellent commentary…but are people willing to acknowledge what is happening I grew up with people whose families had been in the Japanese internment camps; one of my dearest friend’s family suffered from the Chinese exclusion act; my father hired the first black woman to hold a position higher than teller in a large Chicago bank. Are none of Trump’s cheering followers old enough to have been witness to these violations of our Constitution It might not be fear, but it’s selfish ignorance…just like denial that we humans are poisoning our one and only nest. (I do not find the idea of life on Mars a very favorable alternative to the lovely web on earth.) Scrooge and the Grinch don’t compare to the ruination brought by the current rhetoric on the spirit of the compassionate, illuminating ideas behind the celebration of the holidays of winter.

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