Candidate Donald Trump made his point to young people and adults as well, that we have to question anything that doesn't appear to be right, when it is often wrong. The established Athenian government didn't like Socrates because he told the truth, often in riddles. However Socrates was the best philosopher in his times who influenced Plato and others for ten centuries and even today.
Regarding abortions when fundamentalist conservatives want to make a law against abortions, candidate Trump pointed out any violation of a new or old law needs to have punitive action. The conclusion, then, is the woman who decides to have an abortion is the culprit. So this is a moot argument, of the ab absurdo, what went over heads of most politicians.
Such illogical assumption would be back-stepping to Dark Age punishment, what Mr. Trump knew from the start. Government's raison d'etre is not for telling women they have no rights, as men often have been doing ever since some dragged their knuckles on the ground, also dragging bunches of bananas, too. That brings up Tea Party shenanigans condemning their own candidate, a former Democrat. Besides, many people get enjoyment from feebly arguing rhetoric instead of actions, that speak louder than words misinterpreted.
Count Two: When candidate Trump said if nine nations are allowed to make, store and drop radioactive bombs and shoot off nuclear missiles, then why are they being made? This genocide defies International Law and its Court.
Every nation for equanimity must adhere to justice. Remember it was Albert Einstein and Bernard Russell who supported the elimination of all nuclear weaponry. Later President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev said the same thing at the summit in Iceland. But when ever this progress was brought up, the US Senate or some other entity killed it.
That shrewd, smart sage Socrates also told the young people to do what is right, by following their self-knowledge, that is virtually the conscience, the greatest advocate of equanimity and justice. By the way, Socrates' judges claimed he must die. But the real reason for him drinking the hemlock was his disbelief of man-made gods that were carried over to the entire vast Roman Empire. They were misleading the Greek youths.
And one last thing, when you are all alone at the polls and wondering who to vote for, neither your family nor your friends will know who you chose. And this goes for superman delegates, too, no matter who you promised. In politics these controlling mind-bending characters are often twisted strangers. Instead, its the self-knowledge in your own mind that counts. This is why America is so great. It is a non-slave democracy in which the people can change their minds as they gain the truth. We all can unfurl and wave the flag for that!
Helene, World Enlightened News WEN
