[Oe List ...] A good reflection on Romney

[Ken Fisher]

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Ken


On 2012-09-18, at 4:15 PM, George Holcombe wrote:

I'm sorry that this conversation has fallen to such a level.  The mention of Kool Aid, which references the killing of people in the Jones Town tragedy, is saddening to me.  And the idea we came close to becoming a cult as well.  We still are an expression of movemental force.  Of course Lingo has said there are as many versions of the Order as there are participants; take that as you may.

My experience of this list serve is that of trans-establishment.  It is not about a balance of political statements, establisment vs. dis-establishment views or prejudicial statements, but a wrestling with the future from our various perspectives.  This is a very different type of discussion from the talking heads on U.S. media.  It has grown out of our experience.  We are all not the same, but we seek respectful dialogue and we work pretty hard to stick to the facts as best we can grasp them.  Hopefully we can resume that level of discussion.  As a participant in a number of list serves and a manager of one, I have found this one to be very good. Herman has brought us a lot of good material to struggle with and I look forward to that to continue.  

Most of the time I have noticed that when someone disagrees with another, we state what we see to be the case rather than to attack the other.  Our world is changing very rapidly, practicing respectful dialogue might be a good practice for the future.


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Hope appeareth, but it is not your Hope—you do not have anything to do with it. It just appeareth. It comes as a stranger, as an alien—it just appeareth! You do not even know why you hope. How in the world could you hope when there is absolutely nothing to justify any hope?    ~Joseph W. Mathews




On Sep 18, 2012, at 11:04 AM, HERMAN GREENE <hfgreene at mindspring.com> wrote:

> I just thought it was a good refection
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> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone
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> Susan Fertig <susan at gmdtech.com> wrote:
> Just for the record, not everyone on this listserv has drunk your KoolAid, and I’m offended by your language in the message below and the one that succeeds it.
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> Susan
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> From: oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Herman Greene
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 10:21 AM
> To: 'Order Ecumenical Community'
> Subject: [Oe List ...] A good reflection on Romney
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> The Real Romney
> Jonathan Chait says the hidden camera video that went viral yesterday exposes Mitt Romney "as a far more sinister character than I had imagined. Here is the sneering plutocrat, fully in thrall to a series of pernicious myths that are at the heart of the mania that has seized his party. He believes that market incomes in the United States are a perfect reflection of merit. Far from seeing his own privileged upbringing as the private-school educated son of an auto executive-turned-governor as an obvious refutation of that belief, Romney cites his own life, preposterously, as a confirmation of it..." 
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> "The revelations in this video come to me as a genuine shock. I have never hated Romney. I presumed his ideological makeover since he set out to run for president was largely phony, even if he was now committed to carry through with it, and to whatever extent he'd come to believe his own lines, he was oblivious or naïve about the damage he would inflict upon the poor, sick, and vulnerable. It seems unavoidable now to conclude that Romney's embrace of Paul Ryanism is born of actual contempt for the looters and moochers, a class war on behalf of his own class."
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