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To: betty boop
I gather that you, like many people, are frustrated that they can't put The Donald into some kind of convenient box.

You gather wrongly.

Donald Trump is a liberal in that he supports leftist policies and leftist candidates. You can continue trying to spin that but you can't change it and I will no longer waste any more of my time entertaining your denials. Bye.

986 posted on 09/04/2015 1:37:41 PM PDT by South40 (Falling for Trump's rhetoric while ignoring his liberal past is incredibly foolish)
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To: South40
Donald Trump is a liberal in that he supports leftist policies and leftist candidates. You can continue trying to spin that but you can't change it and I will no longer waste any more of my time entertaining your denials. Bye.

Bye! (And good riddance: I do not regard you as a good-faith collaborator on these questions.)

It is insufferable to me that you have a mania for accusing me of perpetrating a "ruse," of being some kind of a sophist, rather than a seeker of the truth of reality, regarding the most critical, existential problems now facing our nation.

Just in case you have never heard of what a sophist is: You have to go back to another root of the American constitutional order, besides Christianity. And that would be classical philosophy.

I am a long-time student of Plato. He detested sophists. They made their living out of promulgating mere opinion, or doxa.

Doxa is the polar opposite of Aletheia logos, which translates as "likely story." The "logos" part here refers to Truth; the "aletheia" part refers to the divine origin of Truth — which we humans never see completely, in full, because the Source of Truth is utterly beyond or outside of the creation and thus outside of human grasp. Which is why it cannot ever be a state of complete knowledge, but only the telling of the "likely story." Truth is divine; doxa is purely human, and usually transgresses against the very idea of the divine because its tendency is ever to "make man the measure."

So put that in your pipe and smoke it!

988 posted on 09/04/2015 2:23:51 PM PDT by betty boop (Science deserves all the love we can give it, but that love should not be blind.)
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