Reply #10: Considering the extremes some of the Repugs have forced [View All]

[johnaries]

upon this country, I think your feelings are only natural. As Nietzsche said: "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster." And: "And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

He also said "Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions." The pendulum tends to swing from one extreme to the other. Even though I am far from a Moderate, even I understand that Extreme Leftism can be just as dangerous as the Extreme Right.

These are all things we must try our best to guard against, no matter how difficult it may be or how much we may wish for some kind of vengeful "justice".

I still believe our best hope is education of the voters. The PIPA report released prior to the 2004 Election showed that most people actually agreed with the Democratic positions, but simply didn't know the Truth.

The problem has been that so many of Repug supporters simply refused to listen! They have become ditto-heads. How do you educate someone who won't listen in the first place?

Fortunately, I think many of them are beginning to have their eyes opened by the actions of the Extremists themselves. The SS "reform" debate, the way they are mistreating our soldiers and veterans, the growing deficit, and their actions in the Schiavo tragedy (whether you agree with the outcome or not, the whole situation was a tragedy for her husband and her family). We shouldn't use TS as a political tool, but that's exactly what the Repugs did and we should call them on it. We should focus on DeLay's Ethics violations and the way he tried to use TS's family tragedy to deflect attention away from the investigation.

I honestly believe that more and more Repug supporters are taking a hard look at what they are supporting, and we have a growing opportunity to educate them.

And I believe we should start working on the local level as well as the National level.