Labels like "liberal" and "conservative' have become cliches like "Republicrats"
Even "libertarianism"denotes attitudes rather than policies
The fantasy of politics dumbs down doctrines to approximations
allowing freebooting privateers to purloin public funding
churches to grow taxfree,and our only environment
to be characterized by willful neglect and profiteering
Arguments of indigenous fall against legal paper walls
They are oral cultures,predating legalisms
TERRA NULLIUS made them invisible citizens
Native Americans still die on Reservations(Broken Treaties)
Look at the differences between fact and act
between espoused "compassionate conservatism"and dead homeless
Rainforests get mined and deforested because they have no value intrinsically
unless and until some tourism venture can exploit them effectively
Mass education proves one size does not fit all-
hence divergence via charter schools and independent academies
Gaps between folk are more than economic-
they become entrenched class divisions unless equality is valued
Laws protect property,jails store the poor,rough and rude are the laws of the land
And there is no going back to Rousseau.We are not "born free"
Every philosopher carries chains of ancestral thinking
Unless and until we can envision alternatives,"realism"will be a fantasy
projected upon leaders who deny global warming ,
and torture and assassinate those who may disagree
From Christian Crusades to Islamic jihads is a question of degree..
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