Carl,
Agreed, except that I do think we do have a dog in the fight this time.
And I say, the advice to “be yourself” is highly overrated…be anybody you
damned well want to be!
So enjoy your revolutionary fervor now, and tomorrow is another day!
Alice
On Mar 27, 2016, at 12:29 AM, Carl Jarvis <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Marsha,
Your thoughts are so important to all of us on Blind Democracy, that I
personally hope you always hang in and feel safe enough to say what's
on your mind.
People who must resort to name calling are merely demonstrating that
they are not yet informed or skilled enough to discuss issues.
Naturally we will not ever agree on everything. Gads! What a dull
world that would be. But to wrestle with ideas, that is where we grow
intellectually. And name calling is far too juvenile to allow that
person's mind to grow.
Talking about labels, I used to hang onto them as if putting a label
on you would be the same as knowing you. Frankly, I now ignore
labels. I am whatever I feel like being at the moment. Tonight, with
a resounding win in my state of Washington, I feel positively like a
Revolutionist. A dibble of Marx, a dabble of Mao, a splash of Fidel,
and I'm ready to raise the battle cry.
But by morning I'll have settled back down, realizing that we, the
Working People, have no dog in this fight, no matter how much we might
like Bernie.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/26/16, Martian.Lady <martian.lady@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi
I think it's quite interesting that people would call you a Marxist. It
almost seems that people throw this name at anyone they disagree with. I
can't imagine anything further from the truth.
I admit I am a democratic socialist.
When name calling starts, I delete anything the name caller posts because
I hate name calling. They may have valid posts but during the discussion, I
don't need name calling. I grew up with name calling, telling people to
drop dead and other things. I know that was over 50 years ago but not
something I can forget. I think that was a terrible run on sentence but I'm
not going back and correcting it.
I wish I could write as well as a lot of you guys.
When people are acting like adults and not name calling, i love this list.
I wouldn't leave because I disagree with some one.
As you know I need to feel safe. That is important to me. I know this is
rambling so I will close my mouth.
Thanks for being here.
Marsha
