I write poetry and philosophies. Some may disagree, and that is your right to do so. So far, 95 percent or more of the time, I always get the same Answers. My brain never seems to shut off, unless I'm sleeping, so I do apologize, if I'm writing to many threads at once. 1.Within the past 50-100 years, has the Morality within America, gotten better or worse? and if so, how so? I'm talking not just with one or two things, but overall. Crime, morality, morale, trust, respect, honor, rights, etc.? Normally, I always get worse. 2. Within the past 50-100 years, has the United States of America, become more Liberal Democrat, or more Conservative Republican? that ones easy. More Democrat. Hence, what is the problem, politically, overall with American politics, within the past 50-100 years? It's the Liberal Socialist Democrat Politicians.
but in my defense, alot of my political theories, help prove one another, and line up with each other. I think anyways.
I think you need to stop looking at political parties and ideologies as the enemy. I see just as many scumbags on the left as on the right. Both sides have become extreme. Morality falls apart the further left or right you go. People become more willing to commit immoral acts for their cause. Morality and sanity lie in the center, where there is compromise, empathy, and compassion. We committed LOTS of immoral acts in the last century. And the century before that. Come to think of it, probably more than we commit now. We just hear about it a lot more often with mass communications and the internet. People knew they could get away with more in the past.
Traditional religious morality is definitely trending downward while more non-religious or perhaps neo-religious morality is on the upswing. There is always morality, even if it doesn’t match our own preferred moral code.
Uuuum, what? lol. "morality falls apart the further left or right you go." We must have two definitions of morality. Because with my morality, there are lines that I won't cross, no matter what my party says. For example, I could never kill an animal for sport, and I don't believe in the death penalty. See, I don't blindly follow my party, unlike most people do on the left or right. What are some of your beliefs, that don't blindly follow your party?
I wasn’t saying you did in particular. But there are many who would. I don’t have a party, so there really isn’t anything to go against. For a left leaning belief, I believe we should do everything possible to preserve and expand ecological health and diversity on this planet, even if it inconveniences humans or damages the economy. For a right leaning belief, I believe people need to rely on themselves for self defense, and that a well armed populace is required to keep the government in check. Anyone should be as well armed as they want to be. Those are just 2 examples, but I find I have about a 50/50 split in right and left beliefs. I try to look at each issue from different perspectives, see why people might think the way they do, and realize that they are not bad people, they just have different priorities. This opens the door to compromise. Nobody is ever going to get everything they want in government unless we have a dictatorship. I think compromise is preferable to that. When people start going too far to the left or right, they become less and less willing to compromise, which galvanizes the opposite ideology. We need to get both sides back to a place where both are willing to give up some of what they want in order to secure other things. Neither is willing to do that anymore. Both sides claim to be the moral side. The right tends to take there claim from a biblical perspective, and the left from a more humanist perspective. So both are moral, just from a differing perspective.
