Reply #62: Yeah, a leader's place is not to lead, right? [View All]

[Bluenorthwest]

Doing the right thing was not his place? Frankly, I see opposition to discrimination to be a role suitable for all Democrats. Setting an example is what a leader does, and his inaction spoke loudly as any words would have done.
You blame the commercials. Please, be specific in explaining why the voters in question all fell for such commercials? Do you claim these voters are incapable of making their own decisions, that they are somehow not responsible for their own votes? On what basis do you say that? Myself, I think that the hate voters knew exactly what they were doing, and wanted to do that evil to their very own neighbors.
You say those who voted for hate are not to blame, rather the opposition to hate is to blame. I see the opposition as having failed on some fronts, certainly, but that in no way mitigates those who used the power of their own personal vote to create discrimination against others. They did it, they own it, that bread was cast upon the waters, and man is it going to come back to them in time. They sewed it, they will reap it. That is the law of the universe, like it or not.