Facebook

Twitter

Friday, January 19, 2018

Open Letter to Fellow Progressives: Enough Already with the Purity Politics


Miracle Girl: Open Letter to Fellow Progressives: Enough Already with the Purity Politics

A politician walks away from politics to stand on principle. Now that's a movie Frank Capra could've written.
Mr. Flake goes from Washington for all the right, principled reasons. Can't we progressives at least agree on that?
Posted by at
Labels: , , , , , , ,

1 comment:

  1. lenaJune 23, 2023 at 2:57 AM

    After reading the statement, a human might respond by acknowledging the politician's decision to walk away from politics based on principles. They may appreciate the reference to Frank Capra, a renowned filmmaker known for his stories about integrity and standing up for what is right. The response may also highlight the potential for agreement among progressives regarding the politician's principled stance. In regards to video and photo editing, it's worth mentioning that CapCut mod apk is indeed a popular video editor. It offers a range of features and tools for editing and enhancing videos. Users can create professional-looking edits, add effects, transitions, and music, and customize their videos to suit their needs. It's a great choice for those seeking a user-friendly and versatile video editing software.

    ReplyDelete

Thank you for your comment!

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Contact me!

Name

Email *

Message *

Coma Girl

Coma Girl

Not a miracle recovery, but a miracle of modern medicine

In 2013 I fell into a six-week coma and nearly died after I contracted legionella. The Legionnaire's disease was in turn triggered by immunosuppression caused by the prednisone I was taking for my rare autoimmune disease, dermatomyositis.

I suffered a series of strokes on both sides of my brain when the sepsis caused my blood pressure to plummet. I fell into a deep coma. My kidneys and lungs began to fail, as my body was began dying one organ at a time. My doctors told my loved ones to give up hope for my full recovery. They expected me to die, and even if I somehow lived, I would remain a vegetable or at best left so hopelessly brain-damaged that I would never be same. But unbeknownst to them, while they were shining lights in my eyes and shaking their heads, I was telling them in my coma-dream--my secular version of a near-death experience--to leave me alone because I was trying to get back to sleep. I was experiencing what is known as covert cognition, the subject of my Skeptical Inquirer article "Covert Cognition: My So-Called Near-Death Experience," which appeared in their July/August issue.

But it wasn't a miracle--despite what so many continue to believe--that I recovered so fully. I owe my life not to God, but the miracles of modern medicine, as well as the nature of the watershed-area brain damage I suffered, as I detailed in my article and in this blog.