The Party Of Trimmers

To follow up on "Shame" in the previous post, the inhabitants of "Shame" might be known, using Dante's term, as trimmers. In his 'Inferno' Dante describes trimmers as "individuals who make changes for reasons of expediencey...prefer to avoid any commitment that would compromise issues of self interest...because they did not choose good or evil they are deserving of a residencey in a kind of no man's world."

You can see more and more this direction our country is heading. No one is willing to take a stand "Save to be thought inoffensive." The idea of things, not being right or wrong, but merely different. Surely other nations, if only we sit down with them, will see we want peace and understand that we are all part of one big global community. For of course we cannot get by without each other's blessings. (hogwash)

How deep is the "national shame"?

I fear it is about to corrode the foundation of core truths to which our nation was founded.

How deep is the "national shame"?

Deep enough to elect someone who would like us to "break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the constitution". Who would like to focus on the "actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change".

How deep is the "national shame"?

Dare I say that I too have found myself "shying at cracks in the sidewalk" after a long talk with a black friend of mine, or after listening to long political rants of America's dicatorship backing past.

How deep is the "national shame"?

The link is a reading from the Times, and I'm afraid of the times.