The 2nd Vermont Republic apparently believes in the golden rule.

To me the golden rule is the best and most succinct summation of everything good in the bible.

The golden rule is Empathy

The golden rule is love when decided to be obeyed by two people,

The White Right People of Faith have been so misled that they are now repeating that they are AGAINST empathy. IF you were to tell one of them that you empathize with them they would now take it as an insult.


"This Crazy Nonsense Empathetic! I'll give you Empathy, I'll empathize right on your behind!!"

verbatim quote by Mr. Steele, the Chairman of the Republican National Commitee.



A positive action that good people can take right now is to explain the basic virtue of empathy. To practice empathy and to let people know the good feeling they have is due to empathy.

That Republicans are now demonizing empathy, may be no surprise but it is an utterly dangerous ideology and perversion of love and reason.   It must be confronted, corrected and practiced.

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Some of you know my early twenties to age 34 of being a secular / political hypnotherapist for 12 years. Political only to the extent that I let people and reporters know that hypnosis can create a feeling or an attitude that is just as potent as propoganda of "gobbledegook" can create a man made perception. That perception becomes reality for some people for some period of time but truth will always take drivers seat when the delusion or post hypnotic suggestion wears off.

The local paper, the TImes Union printed this quote and soon after I had various powers that be on my heels. I was surprised that things had't changed that much since the Tudor age. Not only were the Jesuits concerned and convened a meeting over this, so did the CIA, Secret Service, IRS, Local Police ect. over the next 7 years.

Apparently I did not realize that my opinion was so dangerous in the minds of the local oligarchy. While some of these agencies did explicit harm others certainly never helped me.

To the extent that the meaning of language is important I continue to rant in my 50's about the Orwellian attacks on American percpetion, as in this recent perversion of the word,
Empathy.