Seven Years!

This month marks the seventh year since I started this blog.  I've wondered how I would proceed hereafter.  My passion for political infighting has waned.  Our Republican Party has lost any mooring with reality.  Its members speak more and more with open contempt for rising forces in the national electorate, such as Hispanics.  Like a Roman emperor whose name I have forgotten, they try to brush back the waves and declare victory.  Public opinion has surged beyond them, to endorse gay marriage and other perceived insults to their religious authoritarianism.  They maintain their dogmatic beliefs and damn the consequences.

Little by little, this is happening in other countries, as well.  It is a confrontation which the times and environment demand.  Here, and in Turkey, in Egypt, in Israel and in Iran.  Those of us committed to real democracy must oppose them, to the extent that our conditions allow. 

I think I will write more articles about Pragmatic Ethics in the future.  A commenter at Daily Kos suggested that Pragmatism is simply an "end justifies the means" philosophy.  I would like to refute that.