Originally posted by josephw
So, just what do you think the "side of right" is? What makes it right? According to what standard do you determine what is right?
As a Christian, I do often think "WWJD?" and that is what defines what is "right" to me.
Corporate globalists trying to shove all the money up to the top 1/10th of 1%, at the direct expense of the other 99.9%, are not very Christian, and yet this seems to be the chief aim of many Republican priorities. And the Republicans are always "the party of the evangelists". This has got to be some kind of bad joke. Conservative policies are all about greed, thinking of yourself first. This is why the minorities need to be "kept in their place". Conservatives teach that we need to fear "the other", which is code for "anyone not like us". This is why "all Muslims are terrorists", "all Mexicans are 'illegal'" and "all blacks want is to rape your white daughters". This is also why "gays are immoral pedophiles". And why "women don't deserve to be paid the same as a man", and should "stay home and raise the kids". And why "the poor don't want to work and just want a handout" and "don't give that homeless guy money, he'll just get drunk with it or buy drugs". And why women forced into prostitution at a young age are just "wanton sluts". And if they do have children out of wedlock because their men left them when they found out they were pregnant, but they try to raise them on their own, they get called "welfare queens".
All Republican and conservative politicians (I include the Libertarians here), who claim they follow Jesus, and yet act like the Pharisee in Luke 7:39 and are pierced through with many sorrows for becoming drunk with the love of money, are not representative of those I would align myself with.
The Democrats and other liberals (I include the socialists here), who understand that their bosses are The People and not The Corporation, who would raise taxes on the wealthy if it meant the poor would eat, who are working for universal healthcare, raising the minimum wage and lowering the crushing debt involved in getting an education, THESE are the people I would align myself with.
Did not Jesus say, "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." THIS is what the "side of right" means to me.