Mr. Beckel is a pseudo-intellectual. Like so many rodents and vermin that plague the halls of media, academia and congress, they pontificate on ‘views’ that ignore reality.
Truth. If every human treated each other with unconditional love; any form of government would work and none would be required or necessary. This is also known as ‘without structure’ or anarchy. Kant did present some ideas on this. Anyway..
When I look back I realize I have enjoyed or experienced a relatively diverse or varied upbringing. Rather then describe in detail, I will bullet list, for time’s sake a few.
(Note: in all the following, my family never received govt or church money for the assistance provided.)
1) family began taking in foster children when I was 11 yrs old. Navajo children to begin with.
2) When I was 14-15, S. Vietnam collapsed, my family took in 9 refugees to live in our home husband & wife, older auntie to husband, and six children (10-ish to adult).
Since the teenage years I have been up and down the ‘social ladder’ so to say; hung with the rich; married and had a family (2 kids), when kids became adults, got divorced and went to the beach and joined the fringe community; aka lived on the streets - in my car almost 6 yrs and did some time (really, a common story, so in one way boring).
During my years from 21 to 42, my parents continued assisting troubled youth and did in fact legally adopt a victim of the CPS system; a very sad and somewhat long story I will not share here, however suffice it to say that when all was said and done it cost the State CPS system a large sum of money to the victims.
Point is, through these mentioned interactions, as well as many others with ‘Real’ life conditions; my family, which once were Kennedy Democrats, are now devout conservatives and also developed a deep distrust of politicians.
My parents put their money where their mouths are, more then any other individual(s) that I personally know. Now into their 70’s and they still do.
I was born in 60 and lived the life that many of you cannot imagine; if you add the fact that from 16 yr to 47 yr the ‘Big Island’ of Hawaii was home.
Some of you should recognize the Hawaiian word “ Ha’ole “.
I got to experience bigotry and prejudice first hand, yes I do understand what it is to fear going to the restroom at school, I personally knew of kids who were disabled due to some of these encounters. All another story, in the end, I fit in and became known as a ‘local-haole’ and was “ hanai kine “ into a few large Ohana.
I hope it was noticed I did not use the word “race, racist or racism”; that is because I am into etymology. This word is used by those that are either one of the following or a combination;
a) ignorant
b) a racist by the definition they assign to the word, due to its use; a word of hatred as it was introduced to the English language.
c) have agendas or axes to grind
In other words, those who live by this word are possibly the worst of humanity, these so called “race-baiters”.
Note: Real science indicates no such thing as human division into races. If this term must be used, remember there is only one human race,....thank whatever in the universe or heavens for that, could you imagine (burrrrr/chills).
Also just to let you know, if you have not experienced unadulterated war or until you have lived on the street in certain places; you have no idea of the type of depraved humans you will find. King, Koontz, Patterson and others barely scratch the surface in there descriptions. These people exist and there is nothing you can do to change them. Really they are done.
Though interactions with the Vietnamese refugees and later working with military veterans of that ‘conflict’, I have come to the conclusion that the majority of the information disseminated through Mass Media from Gov was ‘massaged/messaged’.
Now add to that my current world wide social connections due to the WWW. I find that much of what is told to the American public is twisted in one way or another. I absolutely take what I hear and see with caution. The old saying about ‘believing none of what you hear and half of what you see’
Living on the ‘street’, living on the ‘dark side’ of humanity was quite enlightening.
Note: Look up studies into the validity and repeatability of psychological experimentation and you will find that much of what is done could be as high as 70% false. (yes I over-simplified this, do the research).
The point is, when someone tries to talk to you about “street life’ and they have not lived it for at least a couple of years (in some places street life can have a survival rate similar to Vietnam stats); straight up, they are full of sh*t.
Now a quickie regarding life in a ‘Federal Detention Center’; it was weird yes, and there is a reason it is known as ‘Club Fed’; after doing some time in local systems and threatened with Halawa Correctional, it would be ‘Club Fed’ every time.
Now in conclusion, and I have stated this many times before; it is obvious that Bob Beckel and liberals in general, prove that both ends of the human alimentary canal are in fact interchangeable and may be an example of quantum-entanglement.
“Those that can, do; Those that cannot, teach; and those that cannot do or teach, get into ‘mass media’ or politics.”
Read Edward Bernays ‘Engineering of Consent’ around 8 pages depending on text size.
Ah well have a good day, long winded, had too much coffee already.
Wow!
Ihave a question for you. What is the very best form of government? In my opinion, you can make an argument for a benevolent Monarchy who is strong on National Defense. The Age of Pericles, Julius Caesar, Alexander. I don’t know.
I see this in Trump, but what makes him better, is that he is a man who wants the support of ALL the people.
I know he wants the opportunity to speak to the protestors, but he recognizes that most of them are on drugs, living in their parent’s home, unemployed etc. I think he’d love to speak one on one with guys like Beckel.
I am interested in what you said about race and I suppose you could fit me into your three categories. That there is only one race I suppose is similar to classifying dogs as canines, and then you break them down to poodles, beagles, etc. So how would you do that with humans?