Wishing Harm on Others
I thought I’d post this, since there seems to be so much conversation on the topic of wishing suffering on others.
This guy’s message is possibly more disturbing than most, insofar as it targets for punishment the 24%, 25%, and 35% Republicans in California, Oregon, and Washington State respectively.
The concept that people who want to improve the United States actually hate the country has been around at least since the days of the anarchists in the early 2oth Century, but it really came alive in the 1960s, when the first large groups of the population protested for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam. As suggested by the young man with the pick-up truck, it’s not exactly a highbrow position to take.
No decent human being should wish disease on another. But if someone’s going to contract a disease, shouldn’t it be the person who selfishly defied the extremely clear instructions of doctors and scientists, rather than the person who, in order to protect the welfare of the entire population, went to the effort to comply?
In terms of human rights, the U.S. is looking more like China, in terms of democracy, more like Russia, in terms of national solvency, more like Greece, in terms of domestic/racial tranquility, more like Serbia, and in terms of truth, more like North Korea. 
In an earlier post I mentioned that 
Though I’m not a religious person, I find it very interesting that the world’s great monotheistic religions are quite clear in their warnings of evil people, and how they need to be identified and disempowered.
Thus far, the 21st Century is defined by the dividing-into-halves things that at one time were far more homogeneous.
Last night, Texas police officer Shaun Lucas fatally shot Jonathan Price, 31 (pictured), an unarmed black man, as Price was attempting to break up a fight. Lucas has been arrested and charged with murder, as the Wolfe City Police Department said in a statement that he “did not take reasonable action in the encounter.” Bond has been set at $1 million. 
Here are a few words from a man I’ve known more than 50 years, Joe Turk. When I was a teen, I had two very good friends who attended a different school than my own, and Joe taught them math. Because our schools had slightly different holidays, there were days I had off when they didn’t, and I’d sometimes go over there and sit in on his math classes; that’s how totally cool and entertaining they were. 
By a 6 – 2 majority, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the claim of religious freedom can’t be used to deny same-sex couples the right to marry.
The meme here was posted by a conservative associate of mine. Of course, it brought this post back on 
