thankfully, i’m not admin/mod, but i look forward to a future thread topic led by you on these points. good idea.PetrChelcicky wrote:We need a forum for political ethics. All labels which are used for to persecute or stifle political opposition ("treason, spy, foreign agent, insurrection, domestic terrorism" etc.) have to be put under scrutiny.
This is not a question of party affiliation. It implies as well Ken's question wether protests may be stifled by the argument that they are "disobeying".
The precondition is that all our political standards tend to be "double standards".
as you’ve written it, it might fit under Christian Theology, or Homestead.
but due to the nature of thinking it might draw, waiting a few weeks might be the wiser.
for myself, i grieve “we all” have allowed so much of our lives, frankly, even the most personal and intimate, to become solidly political.
this is a terrible terrible loss. yet, so normalized, it’s not noticed, it’s expected+demanded! if it’s not there, people become confused and undone. the first steps to addressing any problem is the ability to admit there is a problem, identify it.
only at that point is problem resolution possible.
when everyone you know (or, i.e., value) appears to be the same or worse, identifying the problem can be next to impossible. as a culture, the U.S. is “here.” ^^^
don’t forget!
getting worse+worse .. 
