"Test everything; hold fast to what is good."
That distinction, I think, clarifies why so many conversations about this topic and this question seem so confused and confusing. Those conversations take place between people in vastly different contexts, between people who identify with vastly different contexts. For those in the former context, this question seems rational, reasonable, and “understandable.” For those in the latter context, it seems ridiculous and offensive.
I’m all in favor of public funding for sports stadiums, but only when the public owns a stake in the team. Otherwise it’s a taxpayer subsidy of a private company that doesn’t need taxpayers’ help.
“The unemployment rate is still at a level which should cause politicians to panic. No one is panicking.” “If the minimum wage had risen in step with productivity growth [since 1968], it would be over $16.50 an hour today. That is higher than the hourly wages earned by 40 percent of men and half of women.” [...]
We have surrendered the necessary task of advocating on behalf of families to “pro-family” clerics and lobbyists who are more anti-modern than actually pro-family, meaning families do not now have any effective advocates for their interests. Even worse, these “pro-family” clerics and lobbyists have been pushing an anti-feminist, anti-woman agenda that winds up doing real harm to real families.
Pregnant women have advocates in feminist groups like the National Women’s Law Center. In theory, “pro-life” groups should also be forceful advocates for the legal rights, legal protections, and social benefits that pregnant women need. But that help is not always forthcoming. Sadly, the pro-life movement seems more focused on imposing legal limits to the options facing pregnant women than on creating an environment in which such women have greater options, greater opportunities to thrive.
First the good news: Virginia Republicans have backed away from plans to end one-person, one-vote elections in the state. The bad news, of course, is that Virginia Republicans introduced and seriously considered a proposal to end one-person, one-vote elections in the state.
You can oppose the predatory scam of the state lotteries. Or you can be a reflexively anti-tax Republican and a disciple of Grover Norquist. But you cannot do both.
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