david rowe on X: ""what have we done..?"..@financialreview https://t.co/4jY301MCRV" / X (twitter.com) One from the other side of the world
"In Dante’s great poem, the neutrals, those who in this world had never taken a side, occupy the mouth and vestibule of Hell. There they swirl unceasingly in clouds of red sand, their faces bitten by wasps and hornets. They pursue in a blind fatal way a flag which never stays for a moment in one place. "Dante denies them the moral dignity of a place even in hell itself. 'Heaven will not have them, and the deep Hell receives them not lest the wicked there should have some glory over them'—lest the wicked, that is, looking at these neutrals, should be able to feel that there were souls worse than themselves. "And what was the sin of these neutrals? Oh, simply this: they had never taken a side. They had spent God’s precious moment, which is our life, they had spent it watching which way the wind was likely to blow." --Reverend John A. Hutton / At Close Quarters, Chapter X: The Shame of Being Neutral --Doonesbury, October 1982.
Submitted for your consideration: The precedent of a high profile federal trial in which a defendant refused to abide multiple gag orders and was found in contempt multiple times. Bobby Seale. Seale was 'Bound and gagged, and they've chained him to a chair'. When acquitted by the jury Seale was sentenced to four years for contempt. Just a reminder.
Benefiting from both sides is NOT being neutral. It's much worse. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/nazis/readings/sinister.html
I dont understand the charisma thing. There isn't a single thing about trump that doesn't disgust me.
I heard someone say that Trump is a poor person's idea of what a rich person should be, or maybe what they would be like if they were rich. A lot of people admire the "he says what he feels" notion because for all the rest of us, we can't really tell the boss, or a cop, or most anyone else how we really feel about them. He gets away with it where the rest of us can't.