Moral Fusion Politics In America

02/01/2023

01/30/2023

Apparently the Scorpion police officers in Memphis that murdered Tyre Nichols were basically "doing what they were told", which doesn't excuse their actions, but it does raise the question as to who else may be guilty of this crime...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis had been on the job for only a few months in 2021 when she saw that homicide numbers were rising toward a record. Near her new home downtown, drivers were buzzing wildly through the streets, often late at night. She had a plan to confront the may...

01/29/2023

The murder of Tyre Nichols by five police officers is not a unique tragedy. Over the years we have seen many cases of police brutality against citizens, many cases resulting in calls for the "defunding of police".

Defunding the police is not the answer. We need police departments to help maintain law and order within the United States. The problem we have isn't with the existence of police personnel but rather one of the "quality" of police personnel. Clearly police departments put a lot of effort into training their recruits to become effective police officers, so where in the process are we failing as a society to I identify which people should and should not be police officers?

No one wants police officers that are timid and afraid of their own shadow, so it probably should be expected that police recruiters look for officer candidates who have strong and assertive personalities, people that civilians would recognize as an authority figure that needs to be obeyed. Well this approach at first glance may seem well and good, we should ask ourselves if we are filtering out police candidates who have the admirable qualities of empathy, sympathy, and respect for their fellow man.

Maybe it's time to stop talking about defunding the police and to start talking about developing processes for identifying police recruits that have more empathy and respect for their fellow man...

Check out this story from USA TODAY: 'Cloud of dishonor': Memphis disbands police unit after Tyre Nichols' death

Memphis police disbanded the SCORPION unit Saturday. The officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death were members of the specialized Memphis Police unit.

Memphis police disbanded the SCORPION unit Saturday. The officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death were members of the specialized Memphis Police unit.

01/25/2023

Some people like
to make vaguely racist comments so they can
claim to be too unwoke to see their own
racism...

01/24/2023

...says the white guy...

Check out this story from USA TODAY: Florida: AP African American Studies course 'lacks educational value'

In a letter to the College Board, Florida said it would turn down a planned AP African American Studies course being piloted around the country.

In a letter to the College Board, Florida said it would turn down a planned AP African American Studies course being piloted around the country.

01/24/2023

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01/22/2023

Why in the world does "Christian Nationalism" even exist in evangelical churches when the First Amendment of the constitution tells us "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." and the Bible tells us to "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's"? (Matthew 23:22)

A 'sleeping giant' could transform US politics, this prominent pastor says

The Rev. William Barber II says a coalition of marginalized Americans — including the poor, immigrants, religious minorities, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community -- could band together and transform the country because they share a common enemy.

01/22/2023

Great stuff!

Rev. Dr. William Barber, II addressed the AFSC Corporation Meeting on March 3rd, 2016. He spoke about the legacy of Quaker history, the Forward Together Moral Mondays movement, and how to create deep change through moral fusion politics, bringing people together to overcome the forces of resistance....

01/22/2023

If you are interested in Moral Fusion Politics, or just curious about it, here is a great place to start!

01/22/2023

These are uncertain and painful times in America. There is so much hatred, division, and polarization; and a commensurate lack of empathy and compassion. People who claim to be "moral", and people who claim to embrace "Christian beliefs", back away from those beliefs the very second they begin to interfere with their personal "rights", or when those beliefs force them to come face-to-face with their own bigotry or racism.

With this page, I hope to do a number of things:

1) Act as a clearinghouse for all things related to "Moral Fusion", particularly when viewed in the context of American Politics.

2) To be a forum for open discussions of all things related to the "Moral Fusion" movement in America, particularly in the context of American Politics.

3) To awaken the American people to the moral turpitude associated with the social injustice and inequality that is systemic in our society.

4) To disseminate information to proponents of the Moral Fusion movement so they may better represent it in America.

A point of clarification here: I am NOT a supporter of "Christian Nationalism" as I consider it a cancer on America. The conflating of the Christian and Political ideologies is NOT a good thing. "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's", and render unto Christ what is Christ's. What we can do, is embrace the values and beliefs that God shares with us through His Word, and use those values and beliefs to form a foundation for our political and societal beliefs WITHOUT invoking God's name. By approaching Moral Fusion and politics in this manner, we make it possible to include almost everyone in the discussion and the process.

Privileged Americans have an "ego-imperative" belief that their success is a product of their own hard work, and that all their worldly success is attributable to nothing but their own efforts. They also believe in the corollary that someone else's failure in our society is solely a result of their own lack hard work. This manufactured belief system is the engine that powers the social injustice that exists in today's American society. Additionally, the historical racism prevalent in American society since its founding, has yielded a privileged American class that is predominantly Caucasian and which has little or no empathy for the unprivileged, and under represented Americans of color. Privileged Americans use their ego-imperative understanding of their success and other people's failures as justification for why our society and government should not apply resources to correcting the social injustices that exist in America today.

This page is brand new and a work-in-progress. If you want to support the Moral Fusion Politics movement in America, please consider adding your voice to this page, and recommending it to your friend.

For more information on "Moral Fusion and Politics", consider the writings of the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, one of the founders of this movement.

https://www.uuworld.org/articles/new-fusion-politics

To be continued...

Jonathan H. Petersohn