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It is a mistake for Progressives to think that those who make up the Most Conservative Elements of the "NEW REPUBLICAN PARTY" ARE ALL CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH. WHILE THEY MAY VOTE AS A BLOC, THE PRIMARY MOTIVATION DIFFERS FROM GROUP TO GROUP.
While They are usually Packaged Together, ULTRA CONSERVATIVE POLITICIANS HAVE REALIZED THAT FINDING THE ONE KEY ISSUE THAT DRIVES CERTAIN GROUPS OF VOTERS TO THE POLLS, OFTEN WILL TURN THEM INTO LOYAL ALLIES, who will support an agenda full of Issues They may care little about.
It could be GUN CONTROL, SAME- SEX MARRIAGE, GOVERNMENT SPENDING, SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, IMMIGRATION LAWS, REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE etc. THE STRATEGY IS TO PUT FORTH AN UNCOMPROMISING, RIGID, AND VITRIOLIC POINT OF VIEW ON A PARTICULAR ISSUE, APPEALING TO THE BASER ELEMENTS OF HUMAN NATURE.
THE REASON: TO LEARN OF THE ONE ISSUE THAT EACH SECTION OF INDIVIDUAL VOTERS MOST IDENTIFIES WITH, AND MANIPULATE IT TO THEIR ADVANTAGE.
IT'S A TACTIC THAT REQUIRES NO INTELLECTUAL EFFORT ON THE PART OF THE LISTENER. THERE IS NO NEED TO UNDERSTAND, OR EVEN CARE ABOUT THE OPPOSITIONS POINT OF VIEW. IT PLAYS ON RAW EMOTION, WITHOUT THE NEED FOR CONTEMPLATION OR REFLECTION.
THE INDIVIDUAL IS ENCOURAGED NOT TO THINK ABOUT AN INTELLECTUAL JUSTIFICATION FOR THE OPINION THEY ARE SUPPORTING, BUT TO REACT TO THE WORDS OF THE AUTHOR AND\OR SPEAKER, AND ACCEPTING THE MESSAGE AS TRUE, AND WORTHY OF SUPPORT. THIS, IN TURN, ENCOURAGES AGREEMENT WITH OTHER OPINIONS THAT ARE EXPRESSED THE SAME WAY.
What you must realize, as you listen to the latest Diatribe by Donald Trump, is that many of the things that matter the most to the average American Citizen are either Unimportant to the F.R.F., or represents something they believe should be eliminated altogether.
For example, think about the current administration. What type of Supporters does Mr. Trump surround himself with? In General, Concepts such as "CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS", "THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD", "TERRORISM", and "LOGIC" ARE ARBITRARY TERMS THAT CHANGE DEFINITION, DEPENDING ON THE WHIMS, PREJUDICES, AND BIASES OF THE F.R.F., EITHER THE INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP. They bring a WHOLE NEW MEANING TO THE PHRASE "SELF CENTERED."
Donald Trump was able to build a Foundation of Support, Tenuous as it may be, because he convinced RACISTS, BIGOTS, MISOGYNISTS etc., to come together and HATE AS ONE GROUP. Even though he has never come close to a working majority, a SHAM ELECTION AND THE TACIT APPROVAL OF THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PARTY has allowed this "COALITION OF HATE" TO BLOSSOM INTO A FLOWER OF EVIL.
Fortunately, many Americans are waking up to the TRUE NATURE OF DONALD TRUMP, AND THE FACT THAT HE ONLY CARES ABOUT: HIMSELF, AND THOSE WHO WILL FEED HIS ENORMOUS EGO. The National Republican Party became big Trump Fans after no one in the DEMOCRATIC PARTY QUESTIONED THE INITIAL RETURNS FROM THE 2016 ELECTION.*
See part 3.
*I guess it never occurred to anyone that DONALD TRUMP ACCUSING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF FIXING THE ELECTION BEFORE A SINGLE VOTE HAD BEEN CAST, MIGHT HAVE BEEN A PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE BY THOSE WHO KNEW WHAT WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN WHEN THE POLLS WERE OPEN.
WELL, GUESS WHAT? JUST LIKE IN 2016, TRUMP IS ACCUSING THE DEMOCRATS OF FIXING THE ELECTION MONTHS BEFORE A SINGLE VOTE HAS BEEN COUNTED. WE KNOW NOW THAT THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS FIXED: IN TRUMPS FAVOR. SO DEMOCRATS, WHAT SAFEGUARDS ARE NOW IN PLACE TO KEEP THIS FROM HAPPENING AGAIN, OR SHOULD WE JUST SETTLE FOR A DICTATORSHIP?
Because of the global coronavirus outbreak, philosophers around the world are teaching courses online. To help philosophers learn effective strategies for teaching in virtual settings, the APA has organized a webinar for APA members: Pedagogies for Teaching Philosophy Online.
The webinar will include brief presentations from philosophers with expertise in teaching online philosophy courses, followed by Q&A with attendees. The panelists for the webinar are the following:
Andrew Cullison (Prindle Institute for Ethics, DePauw University), presenter
W. John Koolage (Eastern Michigan University), presenter
Rebecca Scott (Harper College), presenter
Melissa Jacquart (University of Cincinnati), facilitator
The webinar will be held on Friday, September 25 at 3 p.m. Eastern time / 12 noon Pacific time. To participate, register on the APA website. Registration will be available until 11 a.m. Eastern time / 8 a.m. Pacific time on the day of the webinar, and access information will be provided to registrants at least one hour prior to the start of the webinar. Registration is limited to current APA members.
Whether you’re teaching online for the first time due to the coronavirus pandemic or you teach online regularly and are looking for ways to make your courses even better, this webinar will offer useful advice and insight. Space is limited, so register now! If you’re unable to attend the live webinar, a recording will be made available to APA members afterward.
Normally I don't address POLITICAL/SOCIAL issues with how they impact COMPETITIVE ATHLETICS. To often rivalries and fan devotion have to big an impact on how such issues are addressed. TODAY I AM MAKING AN EXCEPTION. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
FROM PACKERNEWS.COM WRITTEN BY JIM OWCZARSKI.
Packers choose to remain in locker room during playing of national anthem, after a summer of discussing social justice.
MINNEAPOLIS - Boarded-up window frames remain along Nicollet Mall, a throughway of what should be a bustling shopping and social district in downtown Minneapolis. On Sunday, a season-opening NFL game day, the 10-minute walk from Nordstrom Rack — featuring a large portrait of George Floyd behind one of the store's few intact panes — to U.S. Bank Stadium was a largely solitary endeavor. The light-rail train sliding past the eerie, echoing 73,000-seat home venue was the only active noise. There was no music, no tailgate, no din of humanity.
It seemed fitting, then, that the months-long private conversations among the members of the Green Bay Packers came to a quiet end shortly before noon.
While the Vikings recognized the Floyd family, played “Lift Every Voice And Sing” and the national anthem, the Packers elected to remain the locker room as one entity, out of sight.
It was a decision the team reached Saturday before heading to Minneapolis after they weighed the impact doing so.
In the executive suite in U.S. Bank Stadium, Mark Murphy was struck by the empty sideline.
“We wanted to make sure we controlled the narrative of what happened,” Adams said after the game. “All the extra details of what took place inside the locker room, we’ll keep that for our football team. We just wanted to make sure we stayed together, kept the focus on what it was. You get out there and guys kneeling, guys not, whatever, it just gets hijacked. We didn’t want anyone to take off with it and give a new meaning to what we were trying to do. We decided to stay inside as a team.”
Whether it be via text message or Zoom meetings with position groups and coaches — or even public social media interactions — Packers players have been opening up to one another on a level that has stretched far deeper than the bowling trips, rented movie theaters and team dinners that coalesced the 2019 team.
“I’ve dealt with it personally in multiple places,” Will Redmond said of social injustice in late August. “To me, it was a touchy topic and I decided to speak up. For me, I just wanted to shine a light to my teammates, no matter who you are — rookie, third-year guy, fifth-year guy, 10-year guy, we have a voice so let’s use it. Now, I’m just continuing to try to stay on a path to try to lead guys from my hometown, try to speak. A lot of stuff comes from when guys don’t really know, so I just try to voice my opinion and try to let people know what’s going on in our world, what’s going on lately, as much as possible.”
Whether intentional or not, Packers head coach Matt LaFleur helped facilitate conversations in person when the team returned to Lambeau Field in late July. He surprised his team by repositioning lockers, so instead of players being placed by position group they were set up as offense-defense-offense, putting players together who may not have normally interacted.
The impact of that depended on the individual, but multiple players told PackersNews.com that decision helped foster a stronger team bond as they worked through many difficult conversations.
“In the locker room everyday I think you hear somebody speaking about something that’s racial injustice, kind of that category or genre of conversation and just in different parts of the locker room,” offensive lineman Billy Turner said in mid-August. “Obviously, there’s a lot of guys, there’s a lot of staff and personnel and there’s always a conversation around it, which is good because spreading that word and spreading that message and keeping that genre alive is going to be something that helps us progress and move forward and possibly take a couple steps forward in this fight. But the question is going to be, as we move forward throughout this season, are guys still going to be able to take that stride forward and put that front foot forward to make a difference in that category.”
All of those private conversations led to the decision to remain in the locker room, which was perhaps the most impactful of their public statements. For many of the Packers, it was thoughtful, heartfelt and necessary — but ultimately still just symbolic.
“I wouldn’t even say it’s a big thing, but I like to call it a problem in America, so people like me who have the platform and have the voice that people will listen to, I feel like it’s imperative for people like me to step up and do my part,” Adams said Aug. 3. He was part of a powerful player-led June 4 social media video, which sparked a significant change in dialogue from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell “It’s not just about the tweets or the videos or stuff like that, it’s the actual things that we can do.”
Not every act is public, but Turner started a project called “Public Immunity” which he said will address and help social issues through his artistic lens. Redmond went home to Memphis, Tennessee to give out free meals June 13. Defensive lineman Tyler Lancaster connected with a handful of prominent Chicago athletes to buy a building in a food desert and commission its demolition to rebuild it as a grocer.
“I was sort of stuck in a place like, what can I do?” said Lancaster, who recalled his thoughts while watching television on June 2. “There were riots in Chicago and I was like, there’s so much going on and I was like, what can I do to make change? I was really struggling. I was texting other teammates, telling them where I come from, wanting to get other people’s points of view.”
The Packers have been a bonded group on this topic, which players and staff say has been strengthened by the very public support of Murphy. A former player who is a powerful figure in the league, Murphy has been ardent in backing any message the players have chosen to convey. He said the club will work to help register as many voters as possible before opening the Johnsonville Tailgate Village as a polling place and working with Green Bay, Ashwaubenon and Brown County police departments to purchase body cameras.
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Mouthing the words to the National Anthem, and
standing up while doing it, does not make
you A PATRIOTIC AMERICAN if you choose to:
- PUSH AN AGENDA OF HATE.
- VIOLATE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.
- SUPPORT FOREIGN POWERS WHO
ARE SEEKING TO UNDERMINE OUR
ELECTORAL SYSTEM.
- USE LAW ENFORCEMENT TO PUNISH
THE OPPOSITION, AND MAKE SURE
THEY IGNORE YOUR CRIMINAL ACTS.
- OPENLY DEFEND DOMESTIC TERRORISM,
AS LONG AS IT FURTHERS YOUR FASCIST
AGENDA.
- PROTECT CRIMINALS WHO WEAR A BADGE,
DAMAGING THE REPUTATION OF THE VAST
MAJORITY OF THOSE WHO "PROTECT AND SERVE"
WITH HONOR AND INTEGRITY.
WORDS RING HOLLOW IF YOUR ACTIONS DON'T LIVE
UUP TO THEIR MEANING.
T THE GREEN BAY PACKERS, BY THIS ACTION, MADE A
C COMMITMENT TO FURTHER THE CAUSE OF JUSTICE AND
E EQUALITY FOR ALL. IT SPEAKS A LOT LOUDER THAN A
DDONALD TRUMP TEMPER TANTRUM, WITH HIM SPEWING
II INVECTIVES OF HATE AND IRRATIONALITY. GGO PACK. DDAVID MCDONALD.
