In politics, the concrete usually wins over the abstract [Because thinking is hard!]

. . . [M]ost people value [Christian privilege] as an abstract principle, they don’t make decisions based on abstractions. They tend to look at the concrete manifestations of those abstractions. . . . So while many people will say they support [Christian privilege], they are going to be angry if [women workers] access to their contraceptive services are taken away. The situation is similar to those older Tea [Bagee] supporters who say they support getting government out of health care as an abstract principle but will fight tooth and nail to retain their Medicare.

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Paul Krugman: Severe [Reactionary] Syndrome

How did American [reactionism] end up so detached from, indeed at odds with, facts and rationality? For it was not always thus. . . .

The point is that today’s dismal [White-Wing Party] field — is there anyone who doesn’t consider it dismal? — is no accident. Economic [reactionaries] played a cynical game, and now they’re facing the blowback, a party that suffers from “severe” [reactionism] in the worst way. . . .

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Just say No,! to the Susan G. Komen Foundation

Source: MoveOn.org

One may enjoy reading the comments associated with this MoveOn.org post, for some of them realize, and speak to, the metaphysical realm of the argument. Of course, many others mix the physical with the metaphysical, while some write purely on an emotional level. Once one realizes the differences between the physical, metaphysical, and emotional levels of argumentation it is quite entertaining to sit back and observe the incoherence of others arguments.

It makes one wonder how is it that many of the sane end up in insane asylums, while the insane aimlessly wonder through life without ever breaching the physiological senses, what’s more, voting for the reactionary ticket, and reproducing like there’s no tomorrow. [MSH]

Sojourner Truth / Abolitionist / “Ain’t I a Woman?” 1851 Speech / Read By Alfre Woodard

Alfre Woodard reads “Ain’t I a Woman?”, a speech delivered by abolitionist Sojourner Truth at the Women’s Convention in 1851. Part of a reading from Voices of a People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove,) February 1, 2007 at All Saints Church in Pasadena, CA.