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Don't be shy. If you want to comment on my blog entries, please do so. You don't have to be a dog to say what you think. or if you have a pet dog and want to have your dog speak for you, that's also OK. I would like to hear from you or your dog.

Chloe

Thursday, March 31, 2016

FUNDAMENTALISM AND POLITICS


Hi Humans,
You humans have this concept of fundamentalism which means a strict interpretation of an original document. It usually refers to religion, but the same idea can be applied to politics. In religion it can be the Bible, Koran, or any holy scripture. In American politics it usually refers to the constitution. Actually in practice most fundamentalists have their own self serving interpretation of the original document. Moslem terrorists use some passages in the Koran to justify terrorism and murder. Some extreme Christian fundamentalists as well as ISIS Moslems pull out some passage in the Bible that refers to an Armageddon (a huge world war) which is supposed to precede the coming of the Messiah to justify doing things that in their minds will hasten the Armageddon and therefore the Messianic time. In American politics, radical Right Wingers will pull out some passage in the constitution which they interpret in a self serving way. The worst example of this is the claim of the gun anarchists that they are defending the Second Amendment of the constitution in opposing any kind of gun control or gun safety even though that opposition results in the unnecessary death of thousands of American humans (not to mention us other creatures). Actually the Second Amendment does not say that individuals can keep any kind of weapon. It says  "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." In other words each state can have its own militia which we now know as the National Guard. Assault rifles with cartridges that carry many bullets did not exist at the time when the constitution was written. The massive number of gun killings that we see today were not happening at the time the Constitution was written. Our US gangsters were not selling US guns to Mexican narcotics cartels in exchange for Mexican narcotics to poison American humans. 
I am for Hillary Clinton because she is a realist and not a fundamentalist. She wants evolution in which you humans continue to push to improve things in a pragmatic way which allows for adjustment according to how things turn out. The revolution of Bernie Sanders is a kind of fundamentalist approach to politics which does not allow for wiggle room although heading in a general similar direction as Hillary. Ted Cruz is the worst fundamentalist of all the candidates both in politics and religion. Donnie Trump panders to the fundamentalists although it is not clear where he stands on various matters (maybe not clear to him either).
Chloe

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