That is correct, there is nothing "perfect" just relative degrees of approximation. From the caucus yesterday it was pretty easy to identify the factions, and there is a much greater difference between myself and half of that room than between myself and many of my democratic friends.You have the faction that think that "Jesus" is the answer to every question , the little old ladies who were taught to have sex in the dark with their clothes on, and that God sent hurricanes because of gay people. You have those who think we can remake the world in our image if we use military power correctly, and that we have a mandate to democratize the world, and the misguided belief that once everyone is "Americanized" that all will be peachy. You can just look at the forums here or anywhere else and see how that will work. Then you have the business types, it is nothing "personal" just business, and that anything that gets in the way of making money needs to be removed-( even God loves money-right?) In fact- the amount of money you have is the living proof of your worthiness-- if you were not somehow great and deserving, you would not have had it in the first place! If ten people in a room made a million dollars last year, the average income was 100K , that is great! Only one made 901 K and the other 9 made 11K, and that shows the economy is working! We can mess with that now , can we???
This is better than Democrats how ??
They think pretty much opposite- that is the same---that Jesus wants us to make sure that everyone has the same thing, all actions and choices are ethically and morally equivalent, that we should use our military to prevent hunger and genocide, curtail other religions from operating io other parts of the world, and since making money is inherently bad-having a lot must mean you are bad or have done bad things, so we must spread it out again, according to some formula based on reversing the current ratios.....
So........ Where are the people I get to vote for that think Jesus was a wonderful man with good and kind ideas that have been pretty much perverted and reinterpreted by every charlatan in the last 2 thousand years for his or her own purposes, but that trying to apply one of the individual popular sects or divisions current version as a plan to rule politically, either here or abroad = bad idea ? How about the ones that think that using force as an everyday tool of foreign policy, or as a nation, is really no different than one man with a gun robbing another, that force is justified to ensure survival, not as a convenience? How about those that know that having a great deal of wealth is proof of neither worthiness nor evil, it may or may not include or be due to intelligence and/or hard work, but could just as well be due to birth, circumstance, or just dumb luck ??
And even further, as you said, no one is perfect, where are those that recognize that steep gradients, entropy, physics, all teach us that creating large imbalances in anything, eventually lead to bad results ? That that condition should be avoided or mitigated where possible, not due to moral concerns, ethical concerns, political concerns, but sheer common sense ? That simply ignoring a situation will make it go away? You can argue that going around a curve too fast is immoral or unethical, that it might endanger other motorists, children playing on the other side out of sight, that it breaks the laws of the political subdivisions in which it lies. That is all debatable. It is a FACT that when centrifigal force exceeds the traction capacity of the tires, you are going to leave the road. At that point, neither Jesus, a bank account, nor philosophy is going to help. Slowing down will.
