Приоритеты

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Линдон Джонсон:

Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=28772



Майк Пенс:

Now, people who know me well know I'm a pretty basic guy. I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/16/se.02.html

Стоит немного по-другому расставить приоритеты, и становятся возможными чудеса моральной эквилибристики.



Donald Trump’s, Sarah Palin’s and Sean Hannity’s embrace of Julian Assange — who has made a career of illegally obtaining and releasing documents damaging to U.S. interests — is not just a puzzling policy shift. It is the triumph of political tribalism over, well, every other principle or commitment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-good-assange-helped-trump-therefore-assange-is-good/2017/01/05/6e596746-d36a-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html

Разница между "левой" и "правой" моралью сводится к делению мира на своих и чужих. Мораль испаряется по мере сжатия круга "чужих".

"The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans believe people are fundamentally bad, while Democrats see people as fundamentally good,” said Mr. Watts, who was in the area to campaign for Senator Rand Paul. [...] Hearing Mr. Watts was an epiphany for me. For the first time I had a glimpse of where many of my conservative friends and neighbors were coming from. I thought, no wonder Republicans and Democrats can’t agree on things like gun control, regulations or the value of social programs. We live in different philosophical worlds, with different foundational principles.
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/opinion/why-rural-america-voted-for-trump.html