I would tend to agree, a little respect might be appropriate IF such inaction were in the interest of all others and came along with certain other traits, such as basic decency and honesty.
When you think of the scale of suffering that a major war would produce, avoiding that outcome seems to me to shine above everything else.
I accept that Obama and others appeared to many to be honest and decent people, but in truth were not, by my standards.
Right, I was all for Obama, and his first term achieved a lot - in particular the deal with President Putin. Later, he seemed to spoil it all by sitting back. That meant Hillary at the state dept got to have a lovely war in Syria, and towards the end, her appetite for war extended into Libya - am sure she found both delightful. She also had a big part on thre dangerous meddling in Ukraine which started a minor war, but she would have enjoyed it much more if it had been larger. The ideal candidate to be POTUS.....not.
Trump might have been a better choice than Hillary, but he is far from a good choice imo.
So the problem is, the Democratic party chose Hillary, knowing her flaws and her recent record in the state department. They chose to downplay those flaws. Can we trust them now?
In a way he is a more honest caricature of a President than Obama or the others, but to me he is not the Messiah, he is very, very far from being that.
Well I think it is conceivable - based on the mountain he had to climb to get where he is - I think that has been uncanny.
Worryingly, you seem to believe that he may be. Are you suggesting that he be compared to Jesus!?
Remember I am not a Christian. If I believed that any religion had the real deal, I suppose I would support that religion, but I don't. However, like others here, I think that a variety of figures in history may have had some sort of supernatural support - this has been discussed many times. It is always hard to know in any particular case. The truth about Jesus may have been massively distorted.
It appears to me that you and certainly Jim appear to have become unbalanced in your thinking. To a disturbing degree in Jim’s case, being brutally honest.
Well, it is worth noting that just about everyone on this forum might justify that diagnosis if examined by a materialist psychiatrist. If we think the spiritual world is real, it doesn't seem unbalanced to assume that entities from that realm may actually do stuff!
To me it seems like the USA and Britain have been rained upon by some sort of delusion inducing nerve gas. I don’t really follow proceedings that closely in any other countries, maybe it’s a worldwide phenomenon?
I accept that I too, might well have been affected. God help us,
I think mankind is prone to phases of intense delusion, or panic, or whatever you want to call it, and I agree with your implication, we are in one of those periods. Actually, for what it is worth, I would say, you are still open-minded - so not affected by the 'nerve gas'!
I simply do not know what the roots of the present mania really are.
David