'Devoted' Catholics like Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and even the Pope himself come to mind.  God help us...

Mother Theresa would be shocked at how far down the road to perdition abortion 'rights' have gone.  From Planned Parenthood selling aborted baby parts — getting premium payments for intact babies and organs, to abortion up to and including the day of birth, and NOW proposed legislation to allow babies to be 'aborted' up to 2 weeks after being born!!  Give an inch, and they take a mile...

"Do unto others as you would have done unto you" is very different than "Make others do unto others what you would have them do."

???  I've never heard either of those individuals associated with being "the king of racism" or "the greatest racist."  It is of course your own opinion with which I do not agree.

Since your question has nothing to do with the quote, I will not be continuing this dialogue.

Yeah, that will be tough for you, Fred.  You will have to swim outside of your school of fish.  The better question is "how can I discern fact from folly?"  And "what foolish things do I believe?"

Socialism has NEVER ruled the world, thank God.  It did rule Communist Russia — lies were a necessary pillar.  Socialism ruled in Nazi Germany where they had a Ministry of Propaganda — anyone exposing their crimes was eliminated.

Wherever socialism has been established as the rule of law, lies abound.  The Truth may not be told if the corruptions of the government will be exposed.  Socialism is legalized servitude, and dissent is crushed as quickly as possible before people realize that they are not beholden to the dictates of socialists who lay claim to everyone and everything.  Socialism is a con, and the believers suckers or down right thieves.

The ruling class of every socialist country steals all they can while in office, lying about every cause for which they tax the people.  A den of thieves and vipers, always pushing eugenics and depopulation agendas.

Sillick, you would not last long in a truly socialist country.  After you had helped identify all those who dare to be free, they would come for you next because you would have no power to yoke and will have served your purpose.

"The internet" does not 'report,' people do.  The so-called hate groups are defined usually by the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the most hateful groups of all.
Against abortion? Hate group.
Christian?  Hate group.
Against government laying claim to our children as "their children"?  Hate group.
Against taking pride in "Sodomy Month"?  Hate group.
Showing evidence of election fraud?  Hate group.
Pointing out the Emperor is wearing no clothes? Hate group.
Pro-America, pro-Constitution?  Hate group.
And the worst hate group of all time: Trump supporters!

Anyone not 100% in line with the demoralization and by extension the destabilization of society is considered a hate group.

To learn the truth about anything, you first have to WANT to.  Then you have to tell the truth always (even "I don't know") to everyone and most importantly yourself.  Then look for it, high and low, and put it to the test.  Mostly you will discover the lies, and cast them aside one by one.  The truth is the truth is the truth — it already is so.  The rest are lies.

Be assured that whatever is being broadcast is what 'they' want you to believe.  Every. Single. Time.

The question then becomes, WHY do they want you to believe it?

Because the truth shall set you free.

The real issue is that most unthinking people do not even know that they are being held down by absolute lies.  They have been told who they are and what their obligations are, rather than answering the most fundamental questions themselves, "Who am I, and why am I here?"

That is why there is such a blatant war on 'identity' itself.  If they  can't convince you, they will try to confuse you...

Now it's the so-called 'liberals' that wish to censor.  Groupthink rules the statists, whether on the left or the right.

Thankfully, they have helped us identify what's true — whatever they call "misinformation."  This term was never used before the lies of the state were being exposed on uncensored social media bypassing the blamestream media.

'Liberals' today are just like their counterparts, the nationalist socialist democrats of Nazi Germany — propagandists.  They can't handle the truth! (So neither may you...)

I don't know, Fred, DO you?  I believe you, speaking from personal experience, are the most qualified person to answer this question...

(These are stupid questions, by the way.  Everyday ... just trolling nonsense.)

First, there is reality, i.e. 'what is so.'  Although reality is ever-present, we do not necessarily perceive it, understand it or know it.

The Earth exists.  How it came into existence we do not know because there was no one to observe it, as far as we know.  So we theorize about it based upon whatever information we may discover — I say discover because reality already exists, it is up to us to discover or realize what is so.

The search for the truth requires telling the truth, i.e. being factual in our witnessing of what is so.  People pass on what they know from generation to generation, and to the degree that information is factually true, we may use it as a basis for understanding further, and passing along that information.

The important key to discovering the 'truth' is to be truthful in the dissemination of information as theory, opinion, or observed phenomena.  When belief or opinion is treated as fact, anything built upon that information loses its foundation.

Man-made climate change is a theory a best, a lie at worst.  Evolution is a theory, often contradicted by observable facts like human skeletons millions of years old.  Of course carbon-dating cannot always be used as a measure of something's age.  Scientific analysis is often incorrect, so not to be treated as fact but as a hypothesis, which may in fact be true, but yet to be observed consistently. 

It's not so much 'what is' that is misunderstood but the reasons given for its existence.  When it rains, we can say it is raining, and that is a fact.  WHY it is raining is a theory.

One of the cardinal sins is 'bearing false witness,' that is to say lying about something observed.  Thus one starts down the dusty road of delusion, leading people astray — usually to gain power or fame, at the expense of the deceived.

How to discern what is true?  That is the job of each of us, and then to listen to the response.  Honest dialogue leads to truth.

Sorry, Sillik, but "independently rare individual" is not a measurement of sanity.  Neither is being in the majority.

Sanity is measured by one's ability to discern reality, which may be rare, but scarcity is not the measure of sanity even though sanity is rarely among the majority.

Exactly.  Competition, like in sports and debate, sharpens one's skills.  Without competition, there is no debate and no mastery or excellence.  Which is the primary fault with socialism, no one may dissent from the 'experts' no matter how unqualified they are.

What makes someone an expert? MERIT!  The best driver, runner, scientist is determined by their accomplishments.  You don't take advice from losers, sorry, there is no nice way to put it.  No one starts out in first place, they have to train and compete for the position.  May the best person win.

Universities that depend on federal subsidy have become indoctrination camps for Marxism.  US History is not even a requirement any more to graduate.  Pupils are accepted based upon race rather than merit, driving the overall quality down.  It is the purposeful dumbing-down of America.  Students demanding (and getting) segregated dorms, classes, graduation ceremonies have completely turned it all upside down.

Discrimination against 'colored people' was a crime, now granting special privileges to 'people of color' is the norm. 

Black privilege has been the policy for decades.

We've come a long way, baby!

Just as we warned decades ago, anyone not toeing the party line is labeled a terrorist and can be treated as such.

Fred, your conclusions can be counted on to be 100% off-base every time.  That's an A+!

"We" are not a government of the people, we ARE the people who have chartered a representative government.  Collectivist groupthink is a mind f*ck. Is there no cure?

Sorry, Robert, that is NOT Buddhism.  "What you feel is right?"  No.  The Eight-fold path was clear, not a feeling, it is a code of morals.
Civics should be taught in school.  History should be taught in school.  Morality should be PRACTICED everywhere.
Honor needs no religion; without it, there can be no republican form of government.

Jefferson said 20 years...

The quote is right on.
Sillik is right off (again).
Socialism is not a 'vision,' it is authoritarian social engineering that does not respect individual ideas or self-determination.  It is arrogance at its core.  Socialism's first task is to kill off everyone that doesn't agree to its 'vision.'  See China, USSR, Cuba, Nazi Germany — all 'socialists' until they have the power, then totalitarian.

Who is the "we" that will "educate" reason?
Don't confuse resistance to lies as intolerance.
Don't confuse the acknowledgment of Nature's God as unreasonable — it is self-evident.
Let us learn how to discern fact from opinion.  We can have both, just don't confuse one for the other.

Except today they are taught to be social justice 'warriors' and turn on each other.  Boys are taught to be girls, and girls are taught to be boys and to cheer on the State to save them from personal responsibility.  Lord help us.

Independent thought?  LOL!  The product of the progressive liberals has been the mass indoctrination of servitude and groupthink.  It has only gotten 'progressively' worse.  Kids today don't know if they are coming or going, have no solid foundation in truth and personal responsibility.  Just a bunch of victims defending their powerlessness.  Dazed and confused is the goal of public education.

The small 'r' republicans are the foundation of the nation's liberty.  Statists of any stripe are the conspirators for Power, like the Survivor series', they partner up to overpower the others, then turn on each other until the last man standing can rule over the powerless.

Communism is NOT justice.  It is rule by the central bank.

From my perspective, whenever the truth is being spoken, God is speaking.  Whenever lies are being told, the devil is speaking.

The devil's best trick is to convince you that lies are truth and the truth is a lie.  Simple as that.

The truth is the truth is the truth, whether we know it or not.  But to deny that lies abound is to be 'bound' by them.

Thus, knowing the truth breaks all fetters.  It should be no surprise then to realize that what most think is reality is in fact a fiction.  The truth already is, we need only reveal the lies, and we can see true reality, which is essentially eternal which can only be veiled but never destroyed.