Same thing in our current situation.
Our house is on fire, yet people are refusing to grab a hose. It's too crazy an endeavor to put out a raging fire. Just stand by and watch the house burn down (by refusing to impeach for fear of mudslinging and other "Uglies"), that's a "positive agenda" for you. (NOT!)
By that definition, I guess it's best we leave Iraqis to writhe on the ground all for lies, and to let our soldiers get their brains blown out. Better we should relive the Great Depression as war funding continues in the face of recession than to "Just say YES" to impeachment. Perhaps a nation of people should starve during a renewed and updated Great Depression rather than sling mud around, in public. It would seem to be preferable at this point to let civil liberties trickle through our fingers than to cause a stir. After all, warrantless arrests without probable cause are much more "positive" than impeaching a President who breaks more than 900 laws, withholds healthcare from children, abandons Katrina victims to die, creates a 9-11, and and and....because you see, impeachment is an ugly thing. It's a form of mudslinging in a way, isn't it. And that just isn't "nice".
Yet look at all the uglies, far worse and more warped and more maimed, which are the offshoot of the rejection of "The Uglies" from within and in the world around us. If boundaries are rejected as one form of "The Uglies", then "The Uglies" will surely grow into giants far greater in stature and perhas ten times more ugly than before.
Is this blockading of impeachment to spare us all from "The Uglies" a positive agenda? Methinks not. Time for some among the Progressive cross-sector to reconsider their "positivity".
As before, boundaries are a form of love. Sometimes the single most beautiful and good thing we can do is to stop evil when it is happening.
It's called the Michaelic principle: The Archangel Michael wields the sword of truth. That's the work of angels for you. Postive. For the good. Because, as they say, "pretty is as pretty does". And sometimes, even the work of angels----great archangels---ain't that pretty, even if what it *ultimately* does is for the general good. They fight with the sword, and they slay the dragon, which involves bloodshed, albeit with a sword of truth and goodness (which according to the heroic Michaelic image, can indeed be fierce sometimes!)
Lucifer, the great patron of the arts and of love and beauty, not coincidentally known as "The Light Bearer", is also the bearer of false light in the sense that his light fosters illusion. You know, a sort of la-la land of eternal peace and beauty. It is illusion to think that gentleness at all times is truly the way of God (however you prefer to define God in your own mind). As before, sometimes the greatest evils are committed by the silence of good people. That is the trap which Lucifer lays for us, if we fall into it. In the name of love and light, we neglect our duties to promote the work of love and light among people. Because sometimes that work for light and goodness involves fierceness. But with our left and right brains both at work, we can side-step Lucifer's trap of deception and not be misled by "The Pretties". We can wield the sword of truth and fight the sometimes necessary battles. It's the outcome of the sometimes necessary battle which is for the general good, and that outcome is the truest spiritual beauty of all. It also is the true Beauty which offers the most inner rewards. Morality upheld, love protected, and Peace to all. Now *that* is what I call a "positive agenda".
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