[HPFGU-OTChatter] Lord Voldemort, the nature of evil, and politics

[Cabal]

I don't believe in evil, nothing is ever that simple.

Evil is a construct, it fits a narrative nicely, but it doesn't exist. 

There are only moral decisions, as far as politics is concerned, I felt
Obama mostly took the high ground, but faltered now and again because he is
human. I think McCain repeatedly took the low ground, "Terrorist"
"Socialist" "Radical" and even picked a polarizing figure to run with him so
she could say all the things he felt uncomfortable saying. 

When I saw McCain's speech on election day I thought, he doesn't look like a
man who feels like he deserved to win, he looks like a man who is relieved
it's over. I think it took a lot out of him to go the low route he took and
I think he regretted it deeply. 

I think if Obama taught the country anything, it was keep cool, keep calm,
keep smiling.

md

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Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Lord Voldemort, the nature of evil, and politics

The nature of evil. Whatever one's religious believes or lack of, 
most people try to live their lives as 'good' people. Whatever that 
means. Most feel that there is good and evil in the world. They may 
interpret it differently, but most would agree on what is truly evil.

I am reflecting on the Presidential election, now past. As I am 
pondering I am sitting here wearing a t-shirt from a past HP 
convention that says "in the darkest hour of the night, when fair is 
foul and foul is fair, there is no good or evil".... 
We HP fans here know who said that and that the rest of it goes "only 
power and those too weak to use it".

I have learned more about politics this year than I ever wanted to 
know. I know what my party has done, I know that the other side has 
their own 'methods' as well. It is a long story. Cutting to the 
chase, I talked to a good friend who is now retired, but once a 
senior member of the party. He said there are two types of people in 
the party. One group, usually the young, are the idealist, and the 
other are those who know what must be done to win and are not afraid 
to do it. 

My basic response to the events of this election is that we need to 
reform the process within the party. I was part of a rebel group that 
tried to do that, but our goal and methods, while not as dirty, might 
not have been pure either. Which leads me to wonder...  can any of us 
ever escape evil?  Is it in fact, the ones who like LV are capable of 
doing what is necessary, who are actually protecting the rest of us?  
If my party did not do the things that it has done, there would be no 
victory. I know that one of the 'rules' is that the ends justify the 
means. Do they? And if this be true, who is the real hero?  The one 
who seeks to do only good and refuses to do evil? Or the one who does 
evil, for the sake of good? Does good exist at all if evil does not 
provide the place where it can be nurtured and supported? 

I know I am rambling a bit here, as I am pondering these things. I 
have been depressed, while those around me are rejoicing. I am 
depressed because I understand the deeper meaning in the speech 
about 'making the  sacrifices that were necessary". I wonder if 
selling ones soul is the same as splitting it.  The people of this 
country, every country, do not know or understand what is done 
behinds the scenes, in the end for them. Or if not 'for them', at 
least they benefit from it all the same. Can we ever rise above true 
evil? Some of us have been taught that we are not to return evil for 
evil. But as someone said to me not long ago, 'the reason that 
Christianity continues to exist at all is that it has always been 
separated from the government. If it were not it would have been 
destroyed along with it's country." I had to admit that he was right.

Perhaps there can never be reform of our party and system. Perhaps LV 
is right. Perhaps it is only those people who can split their souls 
that can protect us. Perhaps we own them our gratitude rather than 
our distain.  Just musing here...  any thoughts??


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