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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1190672" data-attributes="member: 40736"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/31/1060321/-Reagan-s-Poisoned-Apple" target="_blank">Daily Kos: Reagan&#039;s Poisoned Apple</a>Reagan made this statement twelve years before he became president,&nbsp; at a Republican platform meeting in 1968.&nbsp; He said it in response to the&nbsp; urban rioting that was taking place in the aftermath of the Martin&nbsp; Luther King assassination.&nbsp; He was arguing that the people who were&nbsp; breaking the law were responsible for their actions.&nbsp; He was right.&nbsp; He&nbsp; was also arguing that he and all of his like-minded conservatives had&nbsp; absolutely no responsibility for the societal conditions that existed at&nbsp; the time.&nbsp; He was wrong. In the book of Genesis, the Fall of Man is attributed to their&nbsp; consumption of a fruit (traditionally an apple) from the Tree of&nbsp; Knowledge.&nbsp; The effects were immediate and tragic and eventually led to&nbsp; the murder of their second-born son, Abel, by their first-born son,&nbsp; Cain.When Cain was questioned about his brother’s whereabouts, he asked,&nbsp; “Am I my brother’s keeper?”&nbsp; It is interesting that conservatives, many&nbsp; of whom consider their conservatism a moral byproduct of their faith,&nbsp; cling to a quote that seems to be answering that question with a firm&nbsp; no.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1190672, member: 40736"] [URL="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/31/1060321/-Reagan-s-Poisoned-Apple"]Daily Kos: Reagan's Poisoned Apple[/URL] [I] Reagan made this statement twelve years before he became president, at a Republican platform meeting in 1968. He said it in response to the urban rioting that was taking place in the aftermath of the Martin Luther King assassination. He was arguing that the people who were breaking the law were responsible for their actions. He was right. He was also arguing that he and all of his like-minded conservatives had absolutely no responsibility for the societal conditions that existed at the time. He was wrong. [/I][I] In the book of Genesis, the Fall of Man is attributed to their consumption of a fruit (traditionally an apple) from the Tree of Knowledge. The effects were immediate and tragic and eventually led to the murder of their second-born son, Abel, by their first-born son, Cain.[/I] [I]When Cain was questioned about his brother’s whereabouts, he asked, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” It is interesting that conservatives, many of whom consider their conservatism a moral byproduct of their faith, cling to a quote that seems to be answering that question with a firm no.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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