2013 - The far left won. We are now all equal. No one allowed to have more than anyone else. Everything must be equitable. Precisely how is equity accomplished?

Let's see. I am afraid of the boogey man. I am afraid of menacing people. I am, to an extent afraid of flying. I am afraid of drowning. I am not afraid of the left, nor am I afraid of the right.
Of course the far left have an ideal they believe in and an ideal they see for the country. So, too, does the far right. That's just a nonsensical thing to say, "Everyone already knows what equal means." No, sir, they don't. What equal means to you may not be the same as what it means to me. Same goes for moral, morals and morality. Which, by the way, is another interesting question to pose - if you do not believe in God and the teachings of Christ, where do the "morals" you believe in come from? What do you think, would that raise some interesting answers here on SH?
As for passing or failing, if you fail, you fail because you do not answer the question posed. How exactly would "fair and equal" be implemented by the far left, and the same for the question on the far right. What is it you, generic you, see in your head when you think of the country being run and governed as fair and equal? What do you do to implement what you see in your head? It's not an easy answer, it's not a pat answer.
Everyone complains about the government, congress, etc. Now you are in charge. You sit on the far left side of the table. You have won all the marbles. What, exactly, are you going to do to implement your fair and equal government? Again, taking money from some and giving to others is only part of an equation and way too easy an answer. And if you go with that, how much money are you going to take? Who exactly are you going to give it to? What are you going to do if those you take the money from no longer have enough to supply to whoever you give it to? Are those you give it to now going to be required to do something with the money so that they will be able to give to those coming along behind them? What changes are you going to make in the way people live, are educated, infrastructure, the governing body? Do you see what I'm getting at?
So now, by good friend, Mr. Contard, you are the HMIC. What are you going to do to make this country fair and equal? Or, and this could be true, I suppose, to you, generic you, all you're interested in is some more money? You don't care how the guy next door got all that money he has, you just want some of it? Or you do care, you want to know how he made it? You want to know how he happened to become successful and you're still eking out a living?
As I said, not an easy question. Also one that requires some thought to clarify belief systems, ideals, etc.

---"Everyone already knows what equal means." No, sir, they don't. What equal means to you may not be the same as what it means to me. Same goes for moral, morals and morality. Which, by the way, is another interesting question to pose - if you do not believe in God and the teachings of Christ, where do the "morals" you believe in come from? What do you think, would that raise some interesting answers here on SH?

I should of said everyone already knows what equal is, in their own minds. Same goes with morals as well.

Why does one have to believe in the teachings of Christ to have morals?
I know of plenty of Muslims, bu-dist, Hindi, and a whole host of others that have no issues of knowing morality without reading one lick in that black thumping book. LOL so how does that work for you Murph?

It's not an easy answer Murph because I don't believe in ideology. One can give an ideological answer, if one is ideological... And since I've lost faith in all ideology, it may give me a failing grade, but from a moral standpoint my conscience is clear...

LOL how about that for being moral Murph... hehehe.

Murph for real... I'm in charge? First I make everyone give me the same equivalent as their moral belief allows...

Meaning I've just now become everyone's god.

Then I borrow that passage from the black thumping book and tell everyone except the non-believers that they can't put any other god above me.

Then I'd outlaw money and make every thing free. And everyone would have to participate and singing and holding hands...

Since I've made myself a God and have power over the nation, why would anyone need money?

Is this what you wanted to hear?

---"Everyone already knows what equal means." Sorry, you said everyone should already know what equal means. I misquoted you, left out should.
"No, sir, they don't. What equal means to you may not be the same as what it means to me. Same goes for moral, morals and morality." Which is, of course, true, and why I said maybe we should start with definitions first.

"Which, by the way, is another interesting question to pose - if you do not believe in God and the teachings of Christ, where do the "morals" you believe in come from? What do you think, would that raise some interesting answers here on SH?"

"I should of said everyone already knows what equal is, in their own minds. Same goes with morals as well." Yeah, but for us all to be able to address each other and come to some sort of understanding shouldn't we try to find out what each one is thinking on those two itty-bitty words?

"Why does one have to believe in the teachings of Christ to have morals?" Didn't say one did. I said wouldn't it be an interesting question, would we not get some interesting answers as to where one gets their moral compass. I just used God and Christ, these answers can get way too long, add any of the prophets of whatever religion one wants. That would be part of the "Where does your moral compass come from?" question, I believe.

"I know of plenty of Muslims, bu-dist, Hindi, and a whole host of others that have no issues of knowing morality without reading one lick in that black thumping book. LOL so how does that work for you Murph?" I think you read more into what I was saying, and once again went for the "gotcha" instead of trying to understand what I was getting at or asking what I was referring to first. So there, yourself.

"It's not an easy answer Murph because I don't believe in ideology. One can give an ideological answer, if one is ideological... And since I've lost faith in all ideology, it may give me a failing grade, but from a moral standpoint my conscience is clear..." That's fine, don't care if you believe or don't believe. But where does your moral compass come from, dear boy?

"LOL how about that for being moral Murph... hehehe." It's an answer but it tells me nothing about the future question you and I are going to pose here on SH about where one's moral compass comes from.

"Murph for real... I'm in charge? First I make everyone give me the same equivalent as their moral belief allows..." This, in fact, might be dangerous, Kiddo, if their moral compass comes from, say, vampires? Watch your back and carry garlic with you, or is it a stake?

"Meaning I've just now become everyone's god." Move over, god, because you're getting in the way of the goddess, the queen, the mother of all rulers, the don't you dare question what I tell you, *itch. :):):)

Ever heard of the Communist Manifesto? How about the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (a document of the 1800's, which of course, blames the Jews - it isn't the Jews, but it absolutely reflects the pickle we and the rest of the world are in today, even describes the world wars BEFORE THEY EVEN HAPPENED). Start there and perhaps your eyes will be opened to the evil festering and entangling this Nation too.

By the way, we have a Proletariat in the White House... and this idiot Congress we have gave him the NDAA 2012, which of course our Proletariat would not sign UNTIL the Indefinite Detention clause applied to not only foreign Nationals, but to AMERICAN CITIZENS. And lest you have forgotten, our POLICE has become Para-Military, in violation of a host of now null and void legislation, and especially our Constitution that has become equally as null and void. And that's just for starters... there's so much more.

However, I say we have a Proletariat in the White House because, and this should answer the question of "Where do we as a country finally end up?":

Marx·ism [mahrk-siz-uhm]

noun

The system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, especially the doctrine that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a socialist order and a classless society.

Notice the order here... our Capitalism starting to falter (no doubt not of it's own ovation - it's had a hell of a lot of help getting to the point it is at today), a Proletariat instating Dictatorship (almost ALWAYS through Martial Law), and then the superseding of the SOCIALIST system, and an equally POOR society. That's where we're going. I can't explain everything and anything that these Trojan Horse operatives of Marxism have done in or to this Nation, I am after all only 22 years old and this crap if history is anything to go by, has been festering and growing in this Nation since the 1950's. All I know is, they've done it, they're doing it, and it looks damn well like they're going to succeed.