Thank you for sharing this essay. It is an exemplary report on the changes that have been made and are being made. There is much here that you direct our attention to and I wholly agree with you.
However, I have a problem with tagging these changes to the label of the 'far right' and I have for some time. I can't think of all this damage as being only a far right attack on Democracy, though the people that spearhead these changes are far right. I don't know why this labeling bothers me, but I believe that all of society bears responsibility for this cyclical damage to the varying degrees of progressive or just government institutions humankind has sought to create.
I just want that I or someone will arrive at the label that best describes the movement or people that revile Justice. The kind of people that at every instance of such seeks to dismantle the governing institution that might embody the good that Justice can bring about.
I think maybe I'm just seeking more than a label. Perhaps I really want the root cause or am unsatisfied with the label seeming insufficient. All I know is that that label 'the far right' seems too convenient or easy to use. This is an annoyance that I'll probably have to get over, I think or come up with one that fits for me.
Anyway, thank you for sharing your excellent and accurate observations. I hope that they spread far into the world and move people to fight off the assaults on justice and equity.
I hope that you don't take offense at my nitpicking. I often see others nitpick an excellent piece and it annoys me. Peace.
Dear Ellen, thank you very much for your comment and the beautiful compliment, it means a lot to me! I agree with you and the problem runs deeper and is more complex than just the far-right. I believe, in some way, they are taking advantage of the issues by manipulating opinions and yelling the loudest. Oversimplifying the attacks on democracy by simply blaming a symptom - the far-right - is an easy way to avoid looking deeper and finding the real roots
I appreciate your reply, Carole. I'm glad I didn't offend you and I guess I knew you would understand my unease with that. I like that you defined the issue so clearly.
Your excellent observations and how you express them kind of informed me you'd know what I was trying to express.
I'm going to come up with some designation that is more perceptive. I just feel like, as you say, we are being manipulated.
Thank you so much for your lovely comments, if I may recommend the book “The invisible doctrine” by Georges Monbiot and Peter Hutchison. It peels off quite a few layers of questions about our political and economic system.
Dear Ms. Kupper,
Thank you for sharing this essay. It is an exemplary report on the changes that have been made and are being made. There is much here that you direct our attention to and I wholly agree with you.
However, I have a problem with tagging these changes to the label of the 'far right' and I have for some time. I can't think of all this damage as being only a far right attack on Democracy, though the people that spearhead these changes are far right. I don't know why this labeling bothers me, but I believe that all of society bears responsibility for this cyclical damage to the varying degrees of progressive or just government institutions humankind has sought to create.
I just want that I or someone will arrive at the label that best describes the movement or people that revile Justice. The kind of people that at every instance of such seeks to dismantle the governing institution that might embody the good that Justice can bring about.
I think maybe I'm just seeking more than a label. Perhaps I really want the root cause or am unsatisfied with the label seeming insufficient. All I know is that that label 'the far right' seems too convenient or easy to use. This is an annoyance that I'll probably have to get over, I think or come up with one that fits for me.
Anyway, thank you for sharing your excellent and accurate observations. I hope that they spread far into the world and move people to fight off the assaults on justice and equity.
I hope that you don't take offense at my nitpicking. I often see others nitpick an excellent piece and it annoys me. Peace.
Dear Ellen, thank you very much for your comment and the beautiful compliment, it means a lot to me! I agree with you and the problem runs deeper and is more complex than just the far-right. I believe, in some way, they are taking advantage of the issues by manipulating opinions and yelling the loudest. Oversimplifying the attacks on democracy by simply blaming a symptom - the far-right - is an easy way to avoid looking deeper and finding the real roots
I appreciate your reply, Carole. I'm glad I didn't offend you and I guess I knew you would understand my unease with that. I like that you defined the issue so clearly.
Your excellent observations and how you express them kind of informed me you'd know what I was trying to express.
I'm going to come up with some designation that is more perceptive. I just feel like, as you say, we are being manipulated.
Thank you so much for your lovely comments, if I may recommend the book “The invisible doctrine” by Georges Monbiot and Peter Hutchison. It peels off quite a few layers of questions about our political and economic system.
Thank you, Carole. I'm sure your recommendation will help. I'll be back to harass you when I've finished reading it. ;-).
No problems at all haha!