Keeping On Keeping On

I can’t stomach it. I hate him so much. So much so that I know it must be irrational. But he’s made me this way dammit! I’m going to try to sound rational, however, and I’ll start by saying that I think it’s a good thing that Saddaam is out of power. I think it’s good that Iraqis are voting. I think it’s good that this country is finally starting to talk about our responsibility to others as moral leaders.

Let me briefly clarify my meaning of “moral” and then, “leaders”…because with the current misuse of “moral” so often occurring, it’s worth a moment to explain my sense of the word. “Moral”, as an adjective, is that which is right and good, and manifests deontologically. There is no reliance of our understanding of a moral act for it to be so. That is, a moral act is moral because of the nature of the act, not because of the motivation of the actor, nor because of our knowledge of its morality. Further, those salient features that make a moral act moral must combine in such a way as to lend to human flourishing by instantiating generosity, justice, liberty, and equality.

“Leaders” as I use it here, are those that deny the easy road of moral relativism, and acknowledge that no oppressed person wants to be oppressed, regardless of their reliance on a culture and systems that demands their oppression. These leaders are willing to act, as moral agents, by demanding institutions (governments, companies, anything entity with infrastructure) to promote human flourishing by creating structures of existence that promote generosity, justice, liberty and equality AND eradicating those practices that fail to stand up to the human flourishing test.

Okay, enough of my drivel. So let me ask you, who do you suppose spoke these words last month?

We will persistently clarify the choice before every ruler and every nation: The moral choice between oppression, which is always wrong, and freedom, which is eternally right. America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies.

We will encourage reform in other governments by making clear that success in our relations will require the decent treatment of their own people. America's belief in human dignity will guide our policies, yet rights must be more than the grudging concessions of dictators; they are secured by free dissent and the participation of the governed. In the long run, there is no justice without freedom, and there can be no human rights without human liberty.

I don’t want to pick a fight here, but HELLO Democrats! Freakin’ Dubya said it!! What the F? No wonder we’re getting our asses kicked. I swear to god, I have no idea what the hell Dubya is talking about, because I KNOW he gives a full-on rats ass about women. I know this because of his attacks on my personal rights. I KNOW that Dubya must be kidding himself, if not me, when he talks about knowing that human beings do not aspire to live at the mercy of bullies. I know this because I am living under his bullying ass. And no one says a word about it. And he and his meany friends keep winning, and keep using their power and keep on keeping on.