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 (DIR) Post #AdgHzQBNkJ6XIUW3ns by conceptualjames@www.minds.com
       2024-01-08T22:22:14+00:00
       
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       Even now, in this new year, Christian Nationalism is 10000% an op.I want to stress to you again that because it's an op, the details don't matter. Whether it's right or wrong morally, ethically, politically, or strategically outside of the fact that it's an op don't matter. All that matters is that it's an op, so it must be exposed and avoided.Full Thread 🧵: https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1742669874764063044
       
 (DIR) Post #AdgHzRAi4IA2MhD2OW by bobbyvinson@www.minds.com
       2024-01-08T22:27:52+00:00
       
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       Comment, July 1961 - Gore Vidal on Why Ayn Rand Sucks and Literary CriticismAfter first admiring Brammer's skill in recreating the political scene, Prescott starts that old familiar hissing noise. He expresses wonder that young politicians commit adultery, have premarital intercourse, get drunk and otherwise behave even as people did back when Albert the Good mounted Victoria glumly to birth the Age of Gilt. Then Prescott exclaims: "Men who never dream of being faithful to their wives, who enthusiastically seduce the wives and mistresses of their friends, are faithful to standards of political conduct." He pretends to be stunned by this paradox, and that brings us to the main issue: To the average American the word "morality" means sex, period. If you don't cheat on your wife, you're moral. It is part of our national genus to have no tradition of public morality. We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually. Cheating the government of its taxes, and one another in business, is not only natural but necessary to survival. Now I would suggest that a man's relation to society is a matter of greater moral urgency than his sexual dealings which, after all, are a private and relative matter. When a writer convincingly shows us, as Brammer does, young politicians devoted to right action, I am profoundly moved and morally edified. Prescott misses the moral point, preferring to dig for sex.https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4595/comment-0761/