Iran’s Anti-Israel Protest Reveals Regime Fearful of Domestic Opposition
I want to share some thoughts about the discussion re “conservative/liberal”:
1. there are different value systems leading to different world views and political stances
2. each of these value structures has a specific quality, e.g. if we had no postmodern cultural creatives, we would miss a lot of support for environmental and civil rights activism, if we had ONLY postmodern cultural creatives, nobody would get up at 4 am to produce our wheat.
3. each of these value structures can become pathologic, e.g. conservatives becoming racist or postmodern cultural creatives becoming culture-relativistic and thus not being able to see the oppressive face of islamist ideology.
4. from 1) and 2) I conclude that we should allow each individual to have it’s world view without dismissing it
If we want to address today’s urgent problems, I think we can’t afford to focus on our differences. Even with people having worlviews very close to mine, I surely could debate for hours about some differences we have.
But if we want to solve problems, we have to focus on our common interests. What is the common interest of conservatives, liberals, libertarians and leftists in regard to the political situation of Iran? Could we agree on some lowest common factor? Maybe “a political system granting civil rights to Iranian citizens”?
That leads me to what Josh said: he just engages for human rights, no political fixation, welcoming everybody joining the issue, no matter what worldview this individual may have.
Focusing on commonalities is equal to gaining maximum support for a cause, because more people will understand it being a cause of theirs.
