The honest reality is, Democrats will forever need a foil
There’s not going to be some magical golden era where everyone unites and becomes a Democrat. That simply isn’t going to happen. We will forever live in a multi-party system. We will always have people to the political right of us.
The only question that remains, who is that rightward opposition going to be? Will it be an actual political party that—at the very least—centers itself around ideas, wrong as we think they may be?
Or is it going to be little more than a crazed personality cult, a band of lawless pirates who stand for nothing else but a nihilistic desire to “own” their opponents as a means of fealty to their Grand Master?
That’s where we are today.
I am not applauding Liz Cheney as a politician. Nor am I applauding her as a person. I am not forgetting who her father is, what he stood for and what values of his clearly imprinted upon her. Nor is the Cheney name the model of political civility. (Who can forget the man’s infamous statement to Senator Leahy on the Senate floor?)
However, I do applaud Representative Cheney for nothing more than a desire to want to be associated with a party of ideas as opposed to whatever bastardized Golden Calf worship the Former Office Occupant has brought on.
It’s probably the bare minimum of what one might expect to be applauded for, but for the purposes of a functional democracy and nation, I’ll go ahead and applaud it nonetheless.
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