[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Ufpj-disc] Do Democrats Like Peace?

[C. G. Estabrook]

Saying "outgrow party loyalty" but "don't give up on the party" may just be a 
matter of wanting to have it both ways.  At best it's like those philosophers 
who say that the content of the natural law is "do good and avoid evil" -- the 
maxim may be true but not very helpful. --CGE


Brussel Morton K. wrote:
> I interpret the last paragraph of Swanson's piece, below,  as saying 
> "Don't be a party loyalist", but don't reject what a party can do, even 
> if its past is deplorable. This seems pretty obvious. --mkb
> 
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 4:03 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 
>>>> The United States has always been soaked in blood and racism and 
>>>> sadistic cruelty, yet we've worked and worked and worked over the 
>>>> centuries to make it less so, and I don't hear from too many people 
>>>> ready to give up on the country. /Giving up on a party because of 
>>>> its criminal past makes no more sense/. But learning to outgrow both 
>>>> nationalism and party-loyalty, and to be full-time engaged citizens 
>>>> (not just voters) both of our nation and of the world may be an idea 
>>>> whose time has come.
>>>>
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