Well, Red, whatever it takes to deny the validity of rational analysis of modern interests, you're welcome to your own version. I could say a few things about someone doused in Jung and the native American ghost dance rituals......
Objective facts about people across a long period of active life, like that of David Rockefeller who himself speaks/writes candidly about his purposes is a long way from the paranoia you imagine my views require. Instead, it is on your part a principled determination to reshape the facts into something you can just dismiss. Of course, it doesn't do you any harm that there are quite a few intellectuals steeped in the same delusional constructs.....
You don't need to tread lightly on the LDS comments. Though I come from an LDS mainstream family of sorts.... well, half LDS and half pragmatic objective scientist let's say, I could lay out a fairly detailed analysis of how the LDS church made the trek from being a populist/democratic/socialist "religion" all the way to an elitist/republican/corporate culture, guided every step of the way by authoritarian dictates.... the leadership always way ahead of their own rhetoric. Colton might not like my opinion much, but I don't care.
The issues for me are fairly simple, and not at all as you imagine. Under the principles of the United States Constitution as originally stated, people have "unalienable rights" derived from their existence/being. Governments have historically and objectively been the creatures generally of sociopaths of some sort who consider themselves the relevant actors, their own purposes the highest and primary considerations. I see the same sort of "leadership" operating in religions, beneath the purported altruism and gentle rhetoric, when I see irrational hatred of people who think independently emerge at the points where "leaders" fear they are losing control of their flock. The literature of the modern LDS Church reminds me of Russian literature in the Stalin era, a sort of "socialist realism" that reads like propaganda. The CFR and the "New World Order" style of literature looks to me to be the same sort of propaganda, as do your opinions you regularly post in here. It's as if you write for an unseen critic you fear might be displeased if you depart from the "Party Line"... That's why I do not consider you to be a genuine "human" with the right sort of cognition in gear. You are more of missionary for your "cause" which you are so irrationally committed to, you would literally kill to win for your cause, and you would imagine you do the world a service in doing so....
I hold my own opinions much more lightly. I play with ideas, I don't need to be sure I have the ultimate answers, I don't need, really, to persuade anyone, and I'm not entirely sure I'm even "right" about anything. Certainly, I don't need to remake the world the way I suppose it should be. What I would like to see is more people doing independent thinking, and fewer ideologues who take themselves seriously.
The question is just why folks like Jason and Colton think this forum is a credit when they pick mods who are not actually "moderators" but fellow "comrades" for a sort of political view that is essentially foreign to most Utahns, to the extent that "dissenters" are regularly mistaken for "trolls" and troublemakers, just because they present different views. Yah, some just want to rattle the "liberals". It would, perhaps, be pretty delusional to think there could be rational, polite discussions..... as your ridiculous theories about me and why I think as I do demonstrate..... ha ha.
Helga at least sees human beings as intrinsically relevant, speaks of human potentials which a beneficient government can bring out through policies that promote creativity. The fact that LaRouche clashed with Winston Churchill in India in the ferment that gave us Ghandhi, the fact that he was associated with communists of the sort that Ghandhi knew and would converse with on philosophical terms, enough that even those commies got on board with his principles of nonviolent resistance, should alert you to the whole panoply of available views that include the basic ideals of communitarian/conscientious belief and action, which is a very long way from the "paranoia" you irrationally insist on seeing everywhere you look. I suppose you are devoted to this sort of "conspiracy theory" that justifies attacking anyone who doesn't see the world your way.
But hey, you learned this from the best.... the David Rockefellers, the George Bushes, the Hillary Clintons. The "Media" you soak yourself in.
But there is another world in reality. Someday you may choose to see it. Maybe not.
