Excluded Middle

Liberals find comfort in a society that is polarized economically ...  where the middle class is shrinking and the poor and wealthy growing ... like what is happening now in California. (The reason for the chaos there?) To the contrary,  conservatives rely on a vibrant middle class as a stabilizing societal force .. like what is returning to fly-over America under Trump.

Interestingly, Barack and Michelle Obama have both literally signed onto the Black Liberation Theology movement ... a major tenet of which is the elimination of  "middleclassedness" ... see: Wikipedia Entry. This objective also seems to be on the hidden agenda of the globalists.

Now, I am beginning to understand! The fog is liftting  ... globalists (and socialists) are bipolar and try to exclude the middle  ...

Excluded Middle

There seems to be a crisp dichotomy between the opinions regarding Edward Snowden’s leaking of National Security Agency (NSA) secrets.  Many, like Daniel Ellsberg and the New York Times view him as a patriot and Dick Chaney (among many others) think him a callous traitor.  Snowden himself says, “I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American.”  The Diplomad blog, which I often read, views him as treasonous … but many of the comments therein disagree … see: The Diplomad Blog … and please read through the many thoughtful comments.

Now comes my opinion -- there is a law in logic that deals with such a situation, namely that most opiners are ignoring that both possibilities might be true … or the “excluded middle” (see: Princeton Comments ). And so, I believe that Snowden is both a patriot and a traitor.  He has opened up the debate about what exactly the intelligence operations in this country should be permitted to do without destroying our fundamental freedoms.  For this he is a hero.  But he has also a turncoat … and, through fuzzy thinking and media grandstanding, is revealing many national security secrets that are doing great damage to our counter-terrorism efforts and embarrassing us with our allies.  Unlike many Americans, I don’t think that one conclusion mitigates the other one.

For this latter gross malfeasance, I think he should be extradited and tried for treason.  If he is found guilty, I would have no problem with his being executed.  Such a punishment would clear the minds of other potential Benedict Arnold's before they are duped and try to grab international headlines with such dangerous revelations.