Posted on 07/27/2016 7:04:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
I did RTFA and clearly, the final paragraph dumps on Thiel and by connection, Trump and the ‘new’ GOP. It’s preachy, holier than thou and utter crap. KMA
He pretends there is no contest. We'll have to wait and see if his naivete is fake or not.
I never said ignore them! I just said they are not key matters for this years and most national elections. You make the election about abortion or homosexual rights and I guarantee you will lose the election. Simple as that. We’ve seen it time and again. Focus on issues that are winnable. Address the others where and when they can be won or nudged along. We need Trump to win, not be a martyr.
What does Cheney’s daughter have to do with this? How do you know they were on stage in this convention? I watched the convention and I sure did not see them.
But they are key matters. That’s the facade of the speech—to pretend they aren’t.
It might take a while for a newbie to figure out that the poster of an article is almost always not the author of an article, but after about 24 seconds most have it figured out.
Freegards
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Free people will determine the culture of this great nation.
All these “laws” passed by the liberal pukes in DC, from abortion to gay marriage are intended to divide us.
We first need our FREEDOMS back to once again regain a moral society. It is not up to the President to fight the culture wars, but to help ensure The Peoples Right to live as they wish.
Freegards
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Free people will determine the culture of this great nation.
All these “laws” passed by the liberal pukes in DC, from abortion to gay marriage are intended to divide us.
We first need our FREEDOMS back to once again regain a moral society. It is not up to the President to fight the culture wars, but to help ensure The Peoples Right to live as they wish.
No, they are not key matters. Seriously, do you want to win the election and save America from Clinton or do you want to push an agenda that will lose the election and hand over the keys to Clinton? I’m all for a discussion on what to do personally, locally, and nationally on these issues but this is not the time or place. Consider even the Republican primary, Santorum lost immediately, Lyn’ Ted lost spectularly. The evangelical vote when 80% to Trump. He knows what is important this year, what is important at the moment. Don’t mess with that by trying to inject agendas that will lose. This is not the time and place. Better to get members of congress elected that will address them (and not simply lie about it and do differently once elected).
William Penn was absolutely right.
Peter Thiel is a very smart guy good at spotting trends.
The thing to do is to find a way to make the two work together. There is no going back tech wise, but there is the idea of being guided by wisdom in making these unimaginably brilliant tools useful servants of humanity. Wisdom is what Silicon Valley lacks and the wisdom tradition of the Bible would go a long way toward getting them back on track and away from all the bubbles.
We are not a theocracy, and Christianity was born in the cosmopolitan Roman empire. The Roman empire, for its part, did quite well until it became a state mandated religion, after which it declined, was broken, and the dark ages ensued.
Let’s hope that Mr. Thiel, the party, and the country learn from Rome’s example. I am hopeful, after all, the state-sponsored Godless groupthink called PC is a thing both Thiel and Trump are united against. We don’t need any more tokenism. We are full-to-the-brim of token gestures, from hashtag campaigns (instead of rescues of those young ladies in Africa), to poverty porn tours by the rich which is somehow equated as “doing their part”.
Why, its almost as though PC culture is really a manifestation of superstition that relies heavily on sympathetic magic!
Don’t be naive. The Dem party will destroy your life, and make it culturally horrible.
“It is not up to the President to fight the culture wars, but to help ensure The Peoples Right to live as they wish.”
What if it is someone’s wish to not be forced to let men into the woman’s exclusive areas that they own? Seems like it’s a pretty reasonable and common sense wish. Doesn’t seem like there is anything fake or outrageous about it to me, beyond this Thiel guy bizarrely labelling it as such.
Freegards
Reagan started that with his illegal alien amnesty in the 80s. There are lots of things politicians have done to destroy our lives and make things culturally “horrible”. Let’s fix them one at a time. First, elect good leaders like Trump. You do support Trump, correct? You do want him to win, correct? Or, would you rather put a stake in the ground for your pet issue and watch him lose, satisfied you pushed, but in the end lost on your pet issue? I don’t mean to demean the issue, any issue, but seriously, do you support Trump to win or want to set him up to lose? Your choice.
I think Reagan more paid lip service to the cultural side, but you can tell that being in Hollywood, that he and Nancy knew a lot of gay people and befriended them. Liberace is one example.
The last I read Homosexuals were 2 to 3 percent of the population. I’m a conservative and a Christian and I’m 77 years old. I’ve never understood this preoccupation with gays in the Republican party. The Bible says it is a sin and I believe it. It never stopped me from loving my lesbian niece. I haven’t seen anywhere where Christ commanded me to hate Homosexual people. I just love pundits who lecture me on my faith. /sarc
I see gays as sad defective people. But from a civil rights perspective they have every right to their pursuit of happiness. On the other hand I really don’t want my kids to be influenced by them. In the end my kids will have to find their own way. How will I respond if they tell me they are gay? I have no idea.
Borders, Language, Culture. In that order. Eye on the ball and get that wall built.
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