Progressives (Liberals)

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Everything isn't binary.

Well, everything is - if you happen to have a need to constantly set yourself up as being smarter, more savvy, or more in tune with reality than ‘others’.

This is an interesting phenomenon. A long time ago, I bumped into this idea - "The primary barrier to learning is believing you already know it all"

Sarah Palin stands as an exemplar of this mindset. It is a mindset that contains a justification for not studying, for not reading, for uncareful analyses (if any at all), for slipshot argumentation, etc. And, of course, it functions as a psychological defense where one feels some species of intellectual inferiority which is somehow, and for some persons, too painful to admit. One aspect of this I continue to observe is the profligate use of cliches.

The more I learn, the more I discover how ignorant I truly am.

Those who “know it all” are the most ignorant.

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The more I learn, the more I discover how ignorant I truly am.

Coincidentally, in a Philosophy of Religion course I did at university working from a text that covered the work of some America evangelical philosophers, one of these chaps argued that science cannot be said to contribute to learning because most new discoveries reveal how much we don't know. Honest. That was his argument.

I fully agree on your general point. Those who don't know and recognize the boundary between what they know and understand and don't, are doomed to fail if they get outside their zones of proficiency.

Indeed the hallmark of a wise leader is the ability to get the best out of others more expert than him or herself.

Have you considered AOC, Omar, Spartacus and Pocahontas or Bernie Sanders for membership in this elite group?

I suspect you may have omitted some elements of his argument.

In any event there are numerous counter examples, including, for example, a Catholic priest, Georges Lemaitre, an eminent modern physicist.

Ocasio-Cortez: America As It Currently Stands is ‘Garbage’

I cannot agree with you. Pelosi is a politician, and this is practical politics. I think she's lying about the motivation, I believe she has an eye to the 2020 election rather than any "divisive issue." It simply does not make sense to impeach the fat clown with no prospect of a conviction. Impeach just means to indict, and only requires a simple majority. A conviction requires a two-thirds vote of a quorum of the Senate. It ain'ta gonna happen. That being the case, it would be idiocy, in terms of practical politics, to make the attempt. It could also be electoral suicide. I am convinced that those who agitate for impeachment do so because of an irrational grudge against the fat boy in the White House. Impeachment can only hurt the Democratic Party. Wait until he's out of office, and then take the son-of-a-bitch to court in New York. If he tries to hide out in Florida, indict him and extradite him. Then he can have his day in court, or go into exile in Russia--if Putin will have him.

Impeachment would be political stupidity, an all just to gratify a petty desire for revenge. Democrats need to look to the future.

I just hope Mueller and the others sifting through the dirty man’s finances find a way to get him.

I`m glad that Pelosi keeps that message out there and is so clear about it.

But the American Protestant tradition is philosophically bankrupt.

On the Monday episode of his 8 p.m. program on Fox News, “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the host cast himself as a target of a liberal “mob” and suggested that the political left wanted to shut down his network.

“Fox News is behind us as they have been from the very first day,” Mr. Carlson told viewers. He added: “We will never bow to the mob. Ever. No matter what.”

As Mr. Carlson was speaking, Media Matters released a second batch of excerpts from his appearances on the “Bubba” radio program, including a clip from 2008 in which Mr. Carlson described Iraq as “a crappy place filled with a bunch of, you know, semiliterate primitive monkeys — that’s why it wasn’t worth invading.” Calling into the show in 2006, Mr. Carlson said of Barack Obama, then an Illinois senator, “How is he black, for one thing? He has one white parent, one black parent.”

The new audio highlights about a dozen instances of Carlson using racist language on the “shock jock” show, which he apparently called into for about an hour per week. In 2008, Carlson lamented that “everyone’s embarrassed to be a white man,” before stating that white men deserve credit for “creating civilization and stuff.”