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LEVEL 3: Mike Essays Politics
DOC: From "Jesus for Most People", Jesus, Religion, and the State ..... PDF ....... HTML ....... Text DOC: From "Religious Stances", Ch. 02, on Basic Politics ..... PDF ....... HTML ....... Text DOC: From "Religious Stances", Ch. 08, Decent People ..... PDF ....... HTML ....... Text DOC: Abortion, updated from "Jesus" ........ PDF ....... HTML ....... Text DOC: Gay Marriage, updated from "Jesus" ........ PDF ....... HTML ....... Text Nobody wants to be a slave to rules. Still, we need rules, and we need to respect rules. We need to know what happens when people don't respect rules and don't follow rules well enough. DOC: Following Rules ........ PDF ....... HTML ....... Text Without intending to, often we support badness. We support badness when we assume that any religious group, ethnic group, or country can succeed in plural modern democracy without the correct background, especially without the right institutions. Our silliness on this point has cost us trillions of dollars and many thousands of lives since the American Civil War. DOC: Enabling Badness ........ PDF ....... HTML ....... Text DOC: Donald Trump as Sociopath (2018) ........ PDF ........ HTML ........ Text The following long list of references is to the chapters in my 2018 book on "Democrats, Liberals, Republicans, and Conservatives". The whole thing began as an essay on Liberals and Conservatives, and on how modern Democrats and Republicans are not like the original Liberals and Conservatives. Then it got out of hand. The chapters marked with # are optional in the book but are useful. The chapters are somewhat independent but, if you read about Republicans then I hope you read about Democrats, and vice versa. PAGE: "Republicans, Democrats, Conservatives, and Liberals" -- Democrats and Republicans ALL (WHOLE BOOK) ....... PDF only 00 Introduction (brief) ........ PDF ........ HTML ........ Text 01 Background and Some Facts to Keep in Mind, Mostly Economic ....... PDF ...... HTML ...... Text 02 # The Family in Politics ....... PDF ...... HTML ...... Text 03 Democrats ....... PDF ...... HTML ...... Text 04 Republicans ....... PDF ...... HTML ...... Text 05 # Some Useful Related Material (desires, passions, and morality) ....... PDF ...... HTML ...... Text 06 Original Liberals ....... PDF ...... HTML ...... Text 07 The Importance of Adam Smith ....... PDF ...... HTML ...... Text 08 # Inteludes (selfishness and rationality) ....... PDF ...... HTML ...... Text 09 Original Conservatives ....... PDF ...... HTML ...... Text 10 More History (main history chapter) ....... PDF ...... HTML ...... Text 11 # Values ....... PDF ...... HTML ...... Text 12 Republican and Democratic Self Views and World Views ....... PDF ...... HTML ...... Text 13 Democratic Party Values and Worldview ....... PDF ...... HTML ...... Text 14 Republican Values and Worldview ....... PDF ...... HTML ...... Text 15 More on Republican Views ....... PDF ...... HTML ...... Text 16 News Reporting and the Media (only brief content, not linked here)
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