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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLet's acknowledge that game Republicans are forcing EVERYONE to play insists MORALITY IS FOR LOSERS.
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When Al Franken, who has been a champion for womens rights in his tenure in the Senate, leaves, what rushes in to fill the space may well be a true feminist. But it may also be another Roy Moore. And there is something deeply naïve, in a game of asymmetrical warfare, and in a moment of unparalleled public misogyny, in assuming that the feminist gets the seat before it happens.
This isnt a call to become tolerant of awful behavior. It is a call for understanding that Democrats honored the blue slip, and Republicans didnt. Democrats had hearings over the Affordable Care Act; Republicans had none over the tax bill. Democrats decry predators in the media; Republicans give them their own networks. And what do Democrats have to show for it? There is something almost eerily self-regarding in the notion that the only thing that matters is what Democrats do, without considering what the systemic consequences are for everyone.
Unilateral disarmament is tantamount to arming the other side. That may be a trade worth making in some cases. But its worth at least acknowledging that this is the current calculus. Its no longer that when they go low, we get to go high. They are permanently living underground. How long can we afford to keep living in the clouds?
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/12/the_republicans_have_built_an_uneven_playing_field_of_morality.html
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)I know GOPers have none of those qualities no matter what their GAWD say.
I will not stoop to their level. GOPers are truly fucked up.
How's that "moral high ground" working out for us?
Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)kcr
(15,317 posts)Our side worries way too much about what the other side thinks. Particularly our politicians. The idea that we have to be better than them is based on the premise that we are and were ever equal, to begin with. We forget that we were better already. Our side needs to simply grow a backbone and stop paying attention to their attacks. There is no need to fall all over ourselves proving how much better we need to be.