Reply #77: He was my third choice, because of the wars. I continue to think he might be a dialectician, i.e.

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his personal philosophy is dialectical. Thing about that is that a dialectic doesn't have to be anywhere near evenly balanced, in fact, the more out of balance, the more energy it produces, the more effect, not necessarily good nor bad effects, just more results of somesort, as long as the clash is facilitated, which is acceptable because, after-all, it IS a dialectic, so those results become grist for the perpetuation of the process.

I'm not sure about his personal ideology, Christian, I suppose, maybe Liberation Theology, which is kind of Libertarian salvation. Remember that one of the first things he did upon entering office was to act to preserve Faith-based Initiatives. All of that suggests to me that we have a "dominionist" of a different stripe here, something more ecumenical, and that the boot-straps all of us are supposed to use to free ourselves, WITHOUT THE GOVERNMENT'S HELP, are in the nature of not-for-profit religious collaborations or one type or another. Pretty much speculation on my part, but new HEW regulations implement faith-based assumptions pretty extensively. I should return to the source where I saw those and find that stuff again.