This means that Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg want to pass an agenda Republicans would vote for.
just so you know
just so you know
And yet they still intend to try.
This is tiresome.
I'll vote for a pre-surrendered candidate who is at least stable if I must, but as this is primary season, and there are candidates who are actually willing to fight a political party gone rogue, I'd like to try to do better.
I'll vote for a pre-surrendered candidate who is at least stable if I must, but as this is primary season, and there are candidates who are actually willing to fight a political party gone rogue, I'd like to try to do better.
Note to people telling me THE REPUBLICANS ARE OUT OF CONTROL THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY IS ON THE LINE THIS ELECTION IS CRUCIAL...
I agree.
You lose some credibility if you're backing a guy whose opening bid is "I'm here to compromise w/the out-of-control existential peril."
I agree.
You lose some credibility if you're backing a guy whose opening bid is "I'm here to compromise w/the out-of-control existential peril."
Not a "this" guy, but: this.
Compromise is an excellent tool when put to appropriate use. It is a terrible operating principle.
Like any tool, compromise requires discernment about the use to which it will be put.
A pillow is an excellent tool for comfortable sleeping. But a pillow can be used to smother.
Like any tool, compromise requires discernment about the use to which it will be put.
A pillow is an excellent tool for comfortable sleeping. But a pillow can be used to smother.
Compromise is a *product* of a healthy system. It grows naturally out of a healthy regard for the system, and a desire to create good outcomes for everyone therein.
It doesn't *create* a healthy solution if you have a malicious actor; it only enables the malicious behavior.
It doesn't *create* a healthy solution if you have a malicious actor; it only enables the malicious behavior.
Love to engage with good-faith remarks from people who seem to think what puts the GOP in the wrong isn't what they fight for or what they believe, but simply their determination to fight for what they believe.
Or that resolve automatically equals either violence or surrender.
Or that resolve automatically equals either violence or surrender.
There are people in government right now who have bad intentions and they have been fighting very hard for decades now to put those intentions into action.
Stopping them is going to require a determined struggle—justice always does. The struggle doesn't make you what you fight.
Stopping them is going to require a determined struggle—justice always does. The struggle doesn't make you what you fight.
Fighting people of bad intentions doesn't make you "just as bad" as people of bad intentions.
The pilot fighting the hijacker is not "just as bad" as the hijacker fighting the pilot.
The context of intentions and actions actually matter.
The pilot fighting the hijacker is not "just as bad" as the hijacker fighting the pilot.
The context of intentions and actions actually matter.
And fighting doesn't = violence.
Violence is the least imaginative form of fighting.
But the fight is necessary. Justice is hard, there is powerful opposition. If the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice, it's because people bent it.
Will you join that tradition?
Violence is the least imaginative form of fighting.
But the fight is necessary. Justice is hard, there is powerful opposition. If the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice, it's because people bent it.
Will you join that tradition?
