Interesting, and not a little sad, that today - Valentine's - and in relation to our politics here in Scotland and yours on the other side of the pond, I am confronted by posters whose reaction to an expression of idealism, not of their own kidney, is to vomit. I believe you can tell a lot from a man's vomit.
In Scotland, the public puking was 'provoked' by a rather splendidly Valentine-type, over-the-top love letter to the EU from Scotland in our one independence supporting newspaper, The National - and the offended wretchers were hard-line right-wing Unionists in uneasy alliance with some radical left, anti-capitalist Trots. Not a pretty sight. Your side, apparently, it is the god-driven Evangelicals who cannot stomach ideas which they apparently do not trouble to read, presumably because their God does not command that they do so.
Loving people for the sake that they are people seems so much to be preferred to all these ideological nostrums and, insofar as we must support systems, bearing witness for those forms of organisation which strive to respect people and maintain polities, national and international, that seem most likely so to do. It's Valentine's Day after all.
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