Once more, alas, I find myself unable to follow the best Liberal thought. What the World's contention amounts to, at bottom, is simply the doctrine that a man engaged in combat with superstition should be very polite to superstition. This, I fear, is nonsense. The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.
True enough, even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases, provided only he does not try to inflict them upon other men by force. He has a right to argue for them as eloquently as he can, in season and out of season. He has a right to teach them to his children. But certainly he has no right to be protected against the free criticism of those who do not hold them. . . . They are free to shoot back. But they can't disarm their enemy.
.............Henry Louis Mencken
The meaning of religious freedom, I fear, is sometimes greatly misapprehended. It is taken to be a sort of immunity, not merely from governmental control but also from public opinion. A dunderhead gets himself a long-tailed coat, rises behind the sacred desk, and emits such bilge as would gag a Hottentot. Is it to pass unchallenged? If so, then what we have is not religious freedom at all, but the most intolerable and outrageous variety of religious despotism. Any fool, once he is admitted to holy orders, becomes infallible. Any half-wit, by the simple device of ascribing his delusions to revelation, takes on an authority that is denied to all the rest of us. . . . What should be a civilized man's attitude toward such superstitions? It seems to me that the only attitude possible to him is one of contempt. If he admits that they have any intellectual dignity whatever, he admits that he himself has none. If he pretends to a respect for those who believe in them, he pretends falsely, and sinks almost to their level. When he is challenged he must answer honestly, regardless of tender feelings.
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It's
incredible, but true: in a time of already enormous economic pain, a
lot of our representatives in DC are STILL all about cutting Social
Security.
Even more incredibly, there isn't
a one-stop shop where people can find out where their Representative
stands, and call their Representative if he or she has yet to give their
stance.
The fate of Social Security keeps
on coming down to Congress. If your Representative realizes how toxic
benefit cuts are for anyone who wants reelection, we have a very real
shot of striking down future cuts before they even make it off the
ground.
In other words, we're counting on you. Thank you for all you do to make this movement real.
Sincerely,
John Sellers, The Other 98%
The Chained CPI—the Social
Security benefit cut proposal that would mean thousands of dollars less
for everyone—is still alive in the House. This week, House Republicans
announced that they were including it in their “menu” of demands in
exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
But Representatives Alan Grayson
(D, FL-9) and Mark Takano (D, CA-41) are recruiting members of Congress
to a letter stating: “We will vote against any and every cut to
Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits -- including raising the
retirement age or cutting the cost of living adjustments that our
constituents earned and need.”
House Republican demands to tie
Social Security cost of living increases to the debt ceiling are
outrageous. Since Social Security is paid for by the payroll tax, it
has NEVER contributed a penny to our nation’s debt.
We’re working with the Other 98%
to track members who have already signed the letter, and have noted
whether or not they’ve supported earlier measures along similar lines. The
members need to hear from their constituents: We will not stand for any
cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, and we will not stand
with any member of Congress who votes for them.
- Determine if your member of Congress has signed a previous letter opposing cuts, such as the 2013 Schakowsky-Ellison letter to keep Social Security out of budget talks, or has progressive credentials like membership in the Congressional Progressive Caucus. You should bring that up when you ask them to sign the Grayson-Takano Letter. Ask them to stand up for Social Security now as they have in the past, and challenge them if they claim to have changed their views.
- Be polite but firm; feel free to follow our script below
- If a member of Congress has signed—or agrees to sign—the Grayson-Takano letter, but is not yet on the Cicilline Resolution, please ask them to sign it as well. The Cicilline Resolution opposes the use of Chained CPI, and we would like to build up the number of members on both.
- If you don’t get a chance to speak to a person on the phone, please leave a detailed message or follow up by e-mail. They will be tracking all messages from their constituents.
Hi, my name is [NAME] and I'm calling from [TOWN, STATE].
As
a constituent, I want [MEMBER NAME] to publicly oppose any deficit
reduction or debt ceiling deal that cuts Social Security benefits. That
is why I am asking [MEMBER NAME] to sign onto the Grayson-Takano letter
to vote against any deal that cuts benefits.
Can
you please tell Rep. [MEMBER NAME] that I want [HIM/HER] to publicly
stand against any cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid
benefits?
[Answer]
Thank
you. And can you please tell your press secretary that I called and
asked Rep. [MEMBER NAME] to make a public statement against cuts to
Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security benefits?
[Answer]
Close the call: Thank you for your time!
Thanks for all you do,
Michael Phelan
Social Security Works
Social Security Works
for the quislings: traitor who collaborates with the enemy. you decide who is who, or whom [they] tell you to.
"We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The “tide in the affairs of men” does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: “Too late.” MLK
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