Is the Far Right in America Morally Bankrupt?

[Francine]

This isn't a road but a playing field. Libertarians are at an extreme of that field just like socialists and conservatives. Moderates are the only ones at the centre. I'm not sure if it is a fair characterisation of moderates but it certainly isn't a characterisation of libertarians. The Political Compass.

Okay, it was supposed to be a joke. Middle of the road? Yellow streak? Cheese.

 

[Fluffy]

Okay, it was supposed to be a joke. Middle of the road? Yellow streak? Cheese.

Ah sorry. Went right over my head.

 

[Smoke]

People in the middle of the road have a yellow streak a mile long.

Jim Hightower: "There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos."

The far right has plenty of morals, all bad.

 

[credance]

Right, left, in the middle. Where do the spectators sit? Is hotdogs immoral?

Edit: Should I vote other or depends?

 

[BUDDY]

I am far right and I am religious, and I have to say that I do not believe that in politics we are morally bankrupt. As you very well know, when those men that you mentioned dod the things that they did, the rest of us immediately condemned them for their actions and puched for their resignations. Moral bankrupcy would be accepting and not doing anything about their actions. I think that fits more closely to the way the far laeft acts than the far right.

 

[Fluffy]

I don't believe the far right or the far left are morally bankrupt. I believe that any other view is the result of extreme bias.

 

[Yerda]

I don't believe the far right or the far left are morally bankrupt. I believe that any other view is the result of extreme bias.

I think they're both mental, and morally challenged. I am biased right enough.

 

[Scuba Pete]

I find the religious right to be positively hypocritical and subsequently morally bankrupt. On one hand they CLAIM to be Christian and without batting an eyelash they not only agree to KILLING the innocents in Iraq; they applaud it. Make no doubt about this: the blood of these innocents will cover them from head to toe in the final reckoning. For whatever YOU did to the least of these, my brothers, YOU did it also to me! These are the very people who bomb others in Jesus' name. Utterly disgusting. If you find this offensive, then please take a moment to repent.

 

[Nick Soapdish]

I tend to believe all governments have some degree of corruption. I am not sure how an honest man can really survive in Washington...

 

[Jistyr]

People and their beliefs cannot be charted on a one-dimensional line. So I think the question is of an unfair nature.

 

[kai]

There's no such thing as "morally bankrupt". It's a just a term people throw around to feel better about themselves.

i like that one sounds about right , they sound just "human" to me. left or right they are all human .

 

[Reverend Rick]

Actually, I believe the far right in America is morally superior to all the folks who believe their choice comes before the life of a child. If being dependant on others is a virtue, the far left has things sown up for sure. Far left politics seems more like robbers, thieves and murderers to me.

How someone can be morally superior by being generous with other people's money is the height of hypocrisy.

 

[capslockf9]

Over all;
They are neither Right nor Christian
Evil is acting dumb.
Sadam was a set up.
Righteous they pretend to be.
Christianism is a feign.

Self serving is the motive.

 

[Reverend Rick]

Self serving is the motive.

We prefer to call it self reliant. Taking responsibility for one's self is not immoral.

The far left would like us to believe we cannot survive with out each other. When your reliant on other people for your well being, one day you might get disappointed.

This is something the worthless and weak will never understand. Why work hard when someone else can do it for you right? Spend all your money and then complain you have none because you neglected to save and invest, right?

Drop out of school and neglect your education, it's all good right?

 

[Scuba Pete]

Self serving is the motive.

Frubals on your head, my friend. They have lost the true Christian perspective of mercy and turning the other cheek. Instead, they try to make giving look like taking and waging peace like we are prolonging war. Their hypocrisy is only eclipsed by their mean spiritedness. In the name of FREEDOM they have occupied a country. It's truly sad that they can't see the forest for the bulldozers.

 

[PureX]

We prefer to call it self reliant. Taking responsibility for one's self is not immoral.

The far left would like us to believe we cannot survive with out each other. When your reliant on other people for your well being, one day you might get disappointed.

This is something the worthless and weak will never understand. Why work hard when someone else can do it for you right? Spend all your money and then complain you have none because you neglected to save and invest, right?

Drop out of school and neglect your education, it's all good right?

But we CAN'T survive without each other. When we are born into this world we are born dependent upon our mother's for life. And they in turn are dependent upon their mates. We are born into human groups and we need those groups to survive. We humans can either work together in groups, toward mutual survival, or we end up competing with and killing each other over whatever resources are available. This is the longest running lesson of human history. It's the story of mankind. Lawlessness results in an 'every man for himself' environment, where people and groups kill and rob each other as a way of life. And sooner or later everyone is killed and robbed by someone stronger, or luckier, or more ruthless. We learn that there is survival only through numbers. So family clans joined together to fight off other family clans, and some family clans joined together to kill and rob other family clans, so we had to create even bigger family clans. Eventually clans formed their own governments, and hired soldiers to protect them from marauders. On and on it went ... but always the same concept remained, that people are only safe when they band together and work for their mutual survival. And yet as this concept remained, so did the concept of 'might makes right', and so there were always some percentage of people banding together to kill and rob other people for their own advantage.

The myth of the loner applies only to the dead.

You have a choice in life. You can band together with others for the sake of everyone's mutual survival, or you can live by the rule of 'every man for himself' and instead abuse and exploit other people, and feed off them for as long as you can get away with it.

The greed of the corporate executive who is stacking up piles of money by exploiting and abusing the people of his own society is no different from the greed of the welfare cheat who likewise feeds off the labor and good intentions of his fellow citizens. The only difference is that the corporate executive steals a whole lot more money, and therefor does a whole lot more harm to his society. And he makes his own thievery legal by bribing the government, and the schools, and the churches, and thus he spreads his toxic greed around and opens the door for many more like himself to follow him. At least when the welfare cheat gets caught, he gets punished, and perhaps our vigilance is increased.

As Utah Phillips said: "Don't worry about the bum on the rods, worry about the bum on the plush!"

 

[Francine]

How someone can be morally superior by being generous with other people's money is the height of hypocrisy.

When these other people went to work to make "their" money, did they drive on private roads or public? Did they cross the Big Muddy on a private ferry or the publicly-funded interstate bridge? Did they hire Blackwater to protect them, or just rely on the police?

 

[Mercy Not Sacrifice]

But we CAN'T survive without each other. When we are born into this world we are born dependent upon our mother's for life. And they in turn are dependent upon their mates. We are born into human groups and we need those groups to survive. We humans can either work together in groups, toward mutual survival, or we end up competing with and killing each other over whatever resources are available. This is the longest running lesson of human history. It's the story of mankind. Lawlessness results in an 'every man for himself' environment, where people and groups kill and rob each other as a way of life. And sooner or later everyone is killed and robbed by someone stronger, or luckier, or more ruthless. We learn that there is survival only through numbers. So family clans joined together to fight off other family clans, and some family clans joined together to kill and rob other family clans, so we had to create even bigger family clans. Eventually clans formed their own governments, and hired soldiers to protect them from marauders. On and on it went ... but always the same concept remained, that people are only safe when they band together and work for their mutual survival. And yet as this concept remained, so did the concept of 'might makes right', and so there were always some percentage of people banding together to kill and rob other people for their own advantage.

The myth of the loner applies only to the dead.

You have a choice in life. You can band together with others for the sake of everyone's mutual survival, or you can live by the rule of 'every man for himself' and instead abuse and exploit other people, and feed off them for as long as you can get away with it.

The greed of the corporate executive who is stacking up piles of money by exploiting and abusing the people of his own society is no different from the greed of the welfare cheat who likewise feeds off the labor and good intentions of his fellow citizens. The only difference is that the corporate executive steals a whole lot more money, and therefor does a whole lot more harm to his society. And he makes his own thievery legal by bribing the government, and the schools, and the churches, and thus he spreads his toxic greed around and opens the door for many more like himself to follow him. At least when the welfare cheat gets caught, he gets punished, and perhaps our vigilance is increased.

As Utah Phillips said: "Don't worry about the bum on the rods, worry about the bum on the plush!"

Beautiful. I couldn't have said it better. :bow:

 

[McBell]

Is the far right in America morally bankrupt?
Based on what?
The morals of the left? Yes
The morals of the right? No

 

[Yerda]

How someone can be morally superior by being generous with other people's money is the height of hypocrisy.

Did you always hope Robin Hood would get caught and strung up in the cartoons as a boy?