georgioz
8hr ago
"Now let's see if Democrats learn the lesson of "we do well if we focus on the economy, we avoid turbo-woke stuff, and we take advantage of the other side's unforced errors".
Interestingly I had the very same discussion with my family lately, who also said that "it is all economy, stupid". Yeah, it may have been so in the past. But today it does not matter if any party wants to increase or decrease income tax or build more or less highways. Why should I care if we build more or less highways which will be used by migrants in 40 years.
In a sense Democrats with their Banana republic identity politics are ahead of the game. They can promise everything to everyone: old age pensions for seniors, UBI for working age population, free university education for teenagers, free preschool and subsidies for children as well as government largesse to everybody who votes for them in winner takes all mathematics.
The USA as well as EU countries like France or Germany are now locked into this style of political kabuki defined by political powers running outright grift as in Minnesota and yet being able to vote in the very same person into political power because of it. Welcome to the third world politics.
I do not think this is the best argument for existence of God as it is still defensive as it just follows some form of natural theology. You can always claim somethin like that a Big Bang is uncaused cause or something similar.
On the other hand I do believe that presuppositional apologetics is extremely strong as it shows huge blind spots of many secular and humanist ideologies. It also shows how shallow the overall paradigm of these ideologies is. In short, the argument is that everybody including let's say secular materialist works on some sort of presupposition where they just assert access to certain metaphysical claims. And this is incredibly hard from any humanist paradigm that starts from human or human mind in Cartesian sense.
The point being, that none of these paradigms have any "right" to use any universal claim. E.g. if an atheistic materialist claims that nothing else exists except of matter - what is his grounding for this claim? He as a finite being was not everywhere, every time and thus he has no grounds to utter such a claim. The do not have access to any stable metaphysics. The theist paradigm actually solves this issue. There is exists an omnipresent and all-powerful being and all universals are anchored in this divine mind. By allowing for such an entity to exist, one does have justified grounds to use these universals.
I used an analogy before in form of how god in Gödel's ontological proof serves as an anchor that provides for a modal collapse that smooths away existence of unprovable truths. That is the point of my presupposition. In this analogy materialist is denying existence of Gödel's god, but he at the same time also denies existence of unprovable truths and claiming that they have access to modal collapse without any grounding.
They want to eat the cake and have it too, they often either do not understand how these meta-level arguments such as Transcendental Argument for God work or they just ignore them and still pretend as if they can use the very language for which they do not have any proper justification.
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