Comments on: Political Culture: Seeing the Best (and Worst) in One Another http://popdose.com/political-culture-seeing-the-best-and-worst-in-one-another/ your daily dose of pop culture Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Death by Power Ballad: Everclear, "The New York Times" | Popdosehttp://popdose.com/political-culture-seeing-the-best-and-worst-in-one-another/comment-page-1/#comment-73929 Death by Power Ballad: Everclear, "The New York Times" | Popdose Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:31:25 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=31000#comment-73929 [...] in the face of opposing viewpoints has hardened to a diamond-like core in the last nine years. I don’t want to hear their arguments any more than they want to hear mine. I have grown intolerant of their intolerance.I do so while still cognizant of the very real human [...] [...] in the face of opposing viewpoints has hardened to a diamond-like core in the last nine years. I don’t want to hear their arguments any more than they want to hear mine. I have grown intolerant of their intolerance.I do so while still cognizant of the very real human [...]

]]> By: richardgleaveshttp://popdose.com/political-culture-seeing-the-best-and-worst-in-one-another/comment-page-1/#comment-50388 richardgleaves Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:28:02 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=31000#comment-50388 What happened to this guy? Your writing here is much clearer and with far less foaming at the mouth and potshots than in the recent "Atlas" reviews. I could read the guy who posted this other stuff. What happened to this guy? Your writing here is much clearer and with far less foaming at the mouth and potshots than in the recent “Atlas” reviews. I could read the guy who posted this other stuff.

]]> By: richardgleaveshttp://popdose.com/political-culture-seeing-the-best-and-worst-in-one-another/comment-page-1/#comment-48165 richardgleaves Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:28:02 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=31000#comment-48165 What happened to this guy? Your writing here is much clearer and with far less foaming at the mouth and potshots than in the recent "Atlas" reviews. I could read the guy who posted this other stuff. What happened to this guy? Your writing here is much clearer and with far less foaming at the mouth and potshots than in the recent “Atlas” reviews. I could read the guy who posted this other stuff.

]]> By: Overnight America: 10/13/09 | Popdosehttp://popdose.com/political-culture-seeing-the-best-and-worst-in-one-another/comment-page-1/#comment-38532 Overnight America: 10/13/09 | Popdose Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:17:51 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=31000#comment-38532 [...] Jon Cummings’s most recent Political Culture, which uses the best and worst of what liberals and conservatives believe about each other to open a dialogue; [...] [...] Jon Cummings’s most recent Political Culture, which uses the best and worst of what liberals and conservatives believe about each other to open a dialogue; [...]

]]> By: autodidacthttp://popdose.com/political-culture-seeing-the-best-and-worst-in-one-another/comment-page-1/#comment-39963 autodidact Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:49:17 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=31000#comment-39963 You all can argue about conservative and liberal positions as you please. I don't want to be identified with the power elites in either group (the people who seem to define what is "conservative" or "liberal" these days), and what's worse, those same power elites do not represent the grass roots of any major segment of American society, as far as I can tell. Quite simply, we are all up a divisive philosophical creek without a representative paddle. That's the biggest problem we face. Politics was awfully nasty at the time of this country's founding. That is survivable. The capture of the government by forces which care not for the will or well-being of a majority or even 2/3 of the people -- that is not survivable, IMO. <br><br>Plus, as a Christian, I must declare that Jesus could not identify with what is called liberal or conservative these days. There are many false accusations and false stereotypes being pasted onto both sides, which obviously He would also oppose, in the name of truth. Then again, today his religious views would be called impossibly narrow (there is one path to salvation, and one only) and his moral principles impractically strict and intolerant. (No divorce? Only one sex partner??? America is not ready to swallow that. Nor are the gays who are getting married -- for the time being -- in my state.) Moral sickness is bipartisan and is not restricted to one philosophical orientation. The apostle Paul wrote in one of his letters, "the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so." Unfortunately, that appears to me to be where both camps are right now. But who will stand up for the common man? Even what "liberals" (the leadership labeled as such) are proposing will bring us all to ruin, because it is based on phony promises and bad math. It looks like the "conservatives" would ruin us, too, by a slightly different path. You all can argue about conservative and liberal positions as you please. I don't want to be identified with the power elites in either group (the people who seem to define what is “conservative” or “liberal” these days), and what's worse, those same power elites do not represent the grass roots of any major segment of American society, as far as I can tell. Quite simply, we are all up a divisive philosophical creek without a representative paddle. That's the biggest problem we face. Politics was awfully nasty at the time of this country's founding. That is survivable. The capture of the government by forces which care not for the will or well-being of a majority or even 2/3 of the people — that is not survivable, IMO.

Plus, as a Christian, I must declare that Jesus could not identify with what is called liberal or conservative these days. There are many false accusations and false stereotypes being pasted onto both sides, which obviously He would also oppose, in the name of truth. Then again, today his religious views would be called impossibly narrow (there is one path to salvation, and one only) and his moral principles impractically strict and intolerant. (No divorce? Only one sex partner??? America is not ready to swallow that. Nor are the gays who are getting married — for the time being — in my state.) Moral sickness is bipartisan and is not restricted to one philosophical orientation. The apostle Paul wrote in one of his letters, “the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so.” Unfortunately, that appears to me to be where both camps are right now. But who will stand up for the common man? Even what “liberals” (the leadership labeled as such) are proposing will bring us all to ruin, because it is based on phony promises and bad math. It looks like the “conservatives” would ruin us, too, by a slightly different path.

]]> By: autodidacthttp://popdose.com/political-culture-seeing-the-best-and-worst-in-one-another/comment-page-1/#comment-38172 autodidact Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:49:17 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=31000#comment-38172 You all can argue about conservative and liberal positions as you please. I don't want to be identified with the power elites in either group (the people who seem to define what is "conservative" or "liberal" these days), and what's worse, those same power elites do not represent the grass roots of any major segment of American society, as far as I can tell. Quite simply, we are all up a divisive philosophical creek without a representative paddle. That's the biggest problem we face. Politics was awfully nasty at the time of this country's founding. That is survivable. The capture of the government by forces which care not for the will or well-being of a majority or even 2/3 of the people -- that is not survivable, IMO. <br><br>Plus, as a Christian, I must declare that Jesus could not identify with what is called liberal or conservative these days. There are many false accusations and false stereotypes being pasted onto both sides, which obviously He would also oppose, in the name of truth. Then again, today his religious views would be called impossibly narrow (there is one path to salvation, and one only) and his moral principles impractically strict and intolerant. (No divorce? Only one sex partner??? America is not ready to swallow that. Nor are the gays who are getting married -- for the time being -- in my state.) Moral sickness is bipartisan and is not restricted to one philosophical orientation. The apostle Paul wrote in one of his letters, "the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so." Unfortunately, that appears to me to be where both camps are right now. But who will stand up for the common man? Even what "liberals" (the leadership labeled as such) are proposing will bring us all to ruin, because it is based on phony promises and bad math. It looks like the "conservatives" would ruin us, too, by a slightly different path. You all can argue about conservative and liberal positions as you please. I don't want to be identified with the power elites in either group (the people who seem to define what is “conservative” or “liberal” these days), and what's worse, those same power elites do not represent the grass roots of any major segment of American society, as far as I can tell. Quite simply, we are all up a divisive philosophical creek without a representative paddle. That's the biggest problem we face. Politics was awfully nasty at the time of this country's founding. That is survivable. The capture of the government by forces which care not for the will or well-being of a majority or even 2/3 of the people — that is not survivable, IMO.

Plus, as a Christian, I must declare that Jesus could not identify with what is called liberal or conservative these days. There are many false accusations and false stereotypes being pasted onto both sides, which obviously He would also oppose, in the name of truth. Then again, today his religious views would be called impossibly narrow (there is one path to salvation, and one only) and his moral principles impractically strict and intolerant. (No divorce? Only one sex partner??? America is not ready to swallow that. Nor are the gays who are getting married — for the time being — in my state.) Moral sickness is bipartisan and is not restricted to one philosophical orientation. The apostle Paul wrote in one of his letters, “the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so.” Unfortunately, that appears to me to be where both camps are right now. But who will stand up for the common man? Even what “liberals” (the leadership labeled as such) are proposing will bring us all to ruin, because it is based on phony promises and bad math. It looks like the “conservatives” would ruin us, too, by a slightly different path.

]]> By: Michialhttp://popdose.com/political-culture-seeing-the-best-and-worst-in-one-another/comment-page-1/#comment-38151 Michial Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:12:52 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=31000#comment-38151 I love this post, Jon. Thanks for doing your part in trying to raise the level of discourse in American politics. I love this post, Jon. Thanks for doing your part in trying to raise the level of discourse in American politics.

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