Jim Elliott
Montana Viewpoint: Words to fight by
Jim Elliott writes, "If there is anyone who likes socialism, well, parts of it anyway, it’s big business. They’ve got a sweet deal going. It’s called privatizing profit and socializing loss. When they make money, they get to keep it."
Montana Viewpoint: Starting over after sedition
Jim Elliott writes, "Why did they make that decision to defund the politicians when they had previously been happy to contribute to them? “No one thought they were giving money to people who supported sedition,” said Jamie Dimon, CEO of banking giant JPMorgan Chase."
Montana Viewpoint: A dangerous game with Democracy
Jim Elliott writes, "Whatever grudging respect I had for U.S. Senator Steve Daines has been obliterated by his stunt of joining 11 other Republican Senators to question the validity of the 2020 Presidential election. His motives mystify me, but his action chills me."
Montana Viewpoint: Trump can leave a legacy of life, but he won’t
Jim Elliott writes on the death penalty, "Do these prisoners deserve to die for their crimes? That’s not the question. The question is, do we as a nation want to give our moral support to our government’s taking of life for a crime committed?"
Montana Viewpoint: Georgia SOS was correct in saying ‘This has to stop’
Jim Elliott writes, "We have been taught from childhood the hard-earned lessons of previous generations that there are disputes that are best settled by impartial observers and that those observers have the last word."
Montana Viewpoint: Protocol, politeness, patience and compromise
Jim Elliott writes, "It is possible to wreck a government and therefore the country it serves — the country that you love — if you don’t know anything about it, don’t want to know anything about it, and think you don’t need to know anything about it."
Montana Viewpoint: The people have ‘smoken’ with legal marijuana
Jim Elliot writes, "Marijuana use was blamed for everything from mild insanity to the insatiable urge to massacre hundreds of people at one time. How could something that was once in common use become so bad and then good again?"
Montana Viewpoint: Same destination, different roads
Jim Elliott writes, "If we lose, we pick ourselves up and try harder, but we don’t hate the other side and we don’t harass them because they want to take a different road to get to the same place we all want to get to."
Montana Viewpoint: An honest politician
Jim Elliott writes, "Instead of believing the tripe coming out of our mailbox, web pages, and finally, ears, we need to turn the coin over. We need to make allowances for politicians we differ with somewhat, and support them for the greater good."
Montana Viewpoint: Beware of the monied minority
Jim Elliott writes, "James Buchanan, an economist from the University of Chicago, founded a movement that says, essentially, that there is a minority that needs to be protected from the majority, and surprisingly that minority is the very wealthy."