Will this election be the end of "reaching across the aisle" or "being the adults in the room"?
Please tell me it will be.
Do we (meaning the Democratic party) not realize by now that appointing Republicans just to show how 'fair' we are gets us nothing? See today's news for more on that front.
Do we not realize that no matter how civil, or reasonable, or polite, or politically cautious our candidates are, and no matter how reprehensible, wretched, racist, misogynist, homophobic and generally all around horrible their candidates are that the media and most voters will go "Well both sides are bad!!!"
Will we finally realize that not only don't we get any credit or benefit from being "the adults in the room", either from voters or from the media, but that it actively causes us to lose ground not just electorally but in terms of getting policies done that need to be enacted.
The point being that if we are going to get beat up and lumped in with "the problem" of how shitty our government is run, that we should at least draw as clear lines as possible between us and them? That if we are going to be tarred as 'extremists' just like 'the other side' then we might as well get as extreme and out there in what we want.
I realize this is all wishful thinking, but I'm hoping someone else is hoping the same thing as I am.
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