Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #1
Sat May 2, 2009 6:37 AM
Sir;...Your description of political parties as organizations to which people voluntarily belong is false...I could agree on the issue of vitality were it not always true that all forms not only include, but exclude...In the past, a society scapegoated one of its own with the sins of the community and put them out, or put them to death...I doubt that republicans exclude with a view to political victory, but instead, with an eye to ideological purity...They are forming up for the long haul... Hitler killed off Rohm, and the brown shirts to have purity of spirit...There was a slaughter of hangers on, spies, and half hearts by the Chinese Communists at the beginning of the long march... The ideological purists are not all that pure on the idea of capital, but on the idea of a Christian America they are dead set...And they do identity that pruity with capital and property, and they are dangerous, because as the saying goes: If you scratch an ideologue you find a terrorist....Ideas are not the best things in the world; but the most deangerous and poisonous...People who look for ideals like God reject the failings of average human beings... Some man like Specter trying to play the game as it has been described, as the art of the possible finds that all his compromise in the pursuit of conservative goals was being held against him...His enemies did not want success, which he often gave, but purity, and ideological purity such as no one has yet managed on this earth.....The goal of the ideologues in this land is victory or death...They will take over this government, this country or the world, and call it God's will... A little set back which is well deserved, of Mr. Specter giving up party to join the nation is nothing to those people....They are seeking larger game, heaven, eternity, purety, power...The give and take of government as a form, or of any relationship are beyond them...They intend to win, and Mr. Specter remains a target... Now; sir, there is nothing voluntary for most people in regard to parites...If they have a party we must have a party...Parties are outside the constitution, and they do not serve the people or the government...They serve themselves, and as the right ideologues show, there is no party loyalty when one is talking ideas....The parties have built their success on the ideas that naturally divide us, and now they have reached the point where division is becoming complete...We are recreating the divisions of history between rich and poor, between spiritual purist and the vulgar realists out of which have always come tyrants... Can we allow this??? How can we stop it??? The parties do not give us the ability to work out our differences, but are empowered by division, which they feed, and feed upon...Mr. Specter stepped out of the path of the Bull he helped to create...We should all be so lucky; but the fact is we cannot be... We cannot get rid of the parties and make government work, and if we could get rid of parties and government in one stroke there would be blood and war before we could once more have rational government...So do not confuse parties with any voluntary form...They have nothing in common...They are not a union of love, but a shotgun wedding...Thanks...Sweeney
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