Does this somehow invoke the thought of something “quad” in anyone besides myself?
I mean, if it is polar, then that denotes dual…correct? North and South, East and West, Left and Right, Up and Down?
Then bi-polar is two sets of poles if I’m not mistaken in my logic. Like a Rubik’s cube, with multiple axis.
You know, for years people have been saying we are a polarized society. They’ve blamed it on Bush, of course.
Let’s think about this a moment, using current events as our “illuminating” (or perhaps rectifying or resolving) source.
What is going on in the DNC? Could one argue that it is polarized? Sure looks that way to me.
Now if the DNC is polarized, is this too George Bush’ fault?
Consider this. If the DNC is polarized between Hillary and Obama supporters, then where does that leave the GOP? Maybe we are on a plane of our own, eh?
I think so. I think that we are on the plane of good sense.
In a few weeks, you’ll see the DNC come together in one, big group hug (and you think my spider bite photos are gruesome).
They will kiss and make up and act as if the law never had to be called to a domestic disturbance that has involved the whole nation. They will simply kiss and pretend that the national nightmare never happened. Nary a dish or an unkind word hurled (of course the nation’s gut would have to tell you otherwise since it is “wrenched” up from some hurling of its own).
I have to ask myself – are we as a nation really defined simply by race and gender? I believe that this nation is more complex than a Rubik’s cube. I don’t think we can write everything off to duality. Move one cube-let here, and a whole plane of colors is out of kilter on another face…or perhaps kilter is the wrong word – a new pattern of color and state and character is born on another face; in fact, all the faces are effected by the move.
The purpose of that children’s puzzle was actually to demonstrate to physics students through visual representation what certain particles may look like when configured in different manners. The perfect cube, with all the face’s colors in harmony tells very little about the nature of particles and sub-atomic structures, but when configured in mesons, hadrons or quarks the cube takes on relevance for studies.
It is multi-dimensional from the perspective of being about more than simple duality of existence. It is an array of existence (like the lilies of the field).
Our political system is the same.
Take conservatism.
Many would like to define us as big tent, or single issue. I think we are neither.
We are not defined by abortion, or by who constitutes our ranks.
To be honest, I could care less if you are gay, an abortionist, or somebody from a race other than caucasoid.
I do not think our “thing” is based on these characterizations, but rather on the choices we would make that have effects on these issues, and many more.
Our totality is more than just setting definitions or performing rudimentary calculus on some abacus (this person fits here, that person fits there) – we are more than that.
A conservative (this conservative anyway) believes that we should protect our nation the same way that a father protects his home. Christ himself teaches that “even a strong man arms himself to protect his home”. This is a fundamental of parenting, and of leadership.
We further believe that peace is of the utmost importance and that to secure that state, force is sometimes unavoidably necessary.
The nature lovers on the left fight to preserve it so, and yet all through the animal kingdom the behavior I describe above is witnessed. Animals protect their brood. We must protect our nation. We must keep it on fertile ground. We must preserve and protect it.
I believe that 9/11 is prime in teaching us a vital lesson here. I also believe that George Bush could just as easily have sat on his hands the way that Jimmy Carter did while our fellow Americans were held hostage in Iran for all that agonizing time that he was in office.
He did not.
Like a true conservative, he took action. He charged, like a raging bull. I believe the world is safer today as the result. I believe that through conservative principles, it will continue to become safer still.
So what are these principles?
We do not abandon our allies, and we do not ignore our enemies.
We stay in the fight, until the fight is done.
We keep our nation strong, morally, physically and financially.
We continue to fight the good fight, so that men and women world-wide may live free and we try, try, try to export our prosperity. We must share in the wealth so that perhaps men will choose to build rather than to destroy. This would be the choice of the conservative. Freedom, for all.
Free from tyranny and its constraints.
I’m sorry, but the so-called global village looks more and more a global gulag to me.
Freedom means I can think what I want. Freedom means I can worship the way that I choose (of course, I think worshiping at the altar of bigots is a poor choice).
Nazi-ism, for example, could have been defined as a religion – a cult, really. I feel this sort of sting when I’m told to “get with the liberal agenda” – such as global warming and doing my part to lower my carbon footprint.
You know, freedom for me means that I can walk down the street without fear of terror – terror of any kind.
I’m beginning to wonder when the global warming al-Qaeda will burst down my door and change all the light bulbs in my house.
Now that’s almost as terrifying as that group hug at the DNC (I wonder how much hot air will be produced in that love fest).
I think we have true freedom right now as the result of the conservative cause and the efforts made by conservatives through history.
I thank God for men like Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, and yes America, for George W. Bush.
Through their valiant efforts, their lone voices in the wilderness of populism, the conservative alone has secured freedom of thought and of being for the entire globe.
So for you bi-polars on the left I have but one thing to say…enjoy your damned hippie-hollow hug but keep in mind that it was multi-dimensional conservative thought that bought you that freedom to congregate and follow those superficial sweet nothings.
Xanax anyone? I hear they will be vending at the love fest.
