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Politics can't have anything to do with "love" or "being nice" or "inclusivity" or "diversity" or "social justice" or "the clear & radiant truth" or "we- the go
by leftyted 7y ago
Politics can't have anything to do with "love" or "being nice" or "inclusivity" or "diversity" or "social justice" or "the clear & radiant truth" or "we- the good people, with hope & belief in one another, trust in the diversity & variety of humankind". These things cannot exist in public. When they are invoked in public, they are immediately corrupted and transformed into hypocrisy. They will never form the foundation of any civilization.
The values upon which civilizations are founded are the kind that have been purchased with blood. Values like "give me liberty or give me death," "all men are created equal," and "I have a dream". Platitudes of the kind spoken to third graders don't qualify.
We have a formula for civil rights in the United States. People who want to complete that work should adopt the language of the civil rights movement, which saw itself as an extension of the revolutionary values that founded the United States, rather than as a departure from those values.
Or you can keep calling people evil and keep losing elections.