{"id":6128,"date":"2016-10-18T05:10:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T05:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/18\/the-role-of-concupiscence-in-the-politics-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2016-10-18T05:10:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T05:10:07","slug":"the-role-of-concupiscence-in-the-politics-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/18\/the-role-of-concupiscence-in-the-politics-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Concupiscence in the Politics of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb0946c771970d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AllegoryBosch\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb0946c771970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb0946c771970d-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"AllegoryBosch\" \/><\/a>We are concupiscent from the ground up, and matters are only made worse by our living in sex-saturated societies. &#0160;As a result our erotic &#39;ears&#39; are continually being pricked up by salacious tales and rumors. &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">These distractions are &#0160;exploited by the Clinton machine which knows that digging up ancient dirt on the opponent will trump any serious discussion of his ideas and policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">And that is what we are seeing. &#0160;Any intelligent and intellectually honest person should be able to grasp that what matters are the issues and the policies proposed to deal with them. &#0160;The national debt, immigration legal and illegal, national sovereignty, free speech, religious liberty, gun rights, abortion, the composition of the Supreme Court, globalism, trade policy, radical Islam, and so forth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">This is what we should be discussing primarily, not the character defects of the candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Policies first, persons second. &#0160;Every man has his &#39;wobble,&#39; and every woman too. &#0160;Look hard enough and you will find it.&#0160;But men and women come and go. &#0160; Ideologies and institutional structures last a lot longer to either contribute to the flourishing of you, your children, and grand children &#8212; or the opposite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">But as I said, we are concupiscent from the ground up. &#0160;We will stay distracted, and Hillary will win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Plenty of other factors are in play, no doubt, such as the large group of &#39;tribal&#39; women who will vote for Hillary because she is one of them. &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are concupiscent from the ground up, and matters are only made worse by our living in sex-saturated societies. &#0160;As a result our erotic &#39;ears&#39; are continually being pricked up by salacious tales and rumors. &#0160; These distractions are &#0160;exploited by the Clinton machine which knows that digging up ancient dirt on the opponent will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/18\/the-role-of-concupiscence-in-the-politics-of-the-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Role of Concupiscence in the Politics of the Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sex-love-lust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}