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jack8007 -> RE: Here is a Test, is it Satan or the GOP (3/7/2011 11:38:14 AM)
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BOTH sides care a lot more about obtaining and retaining power than they care about actually helping the American public.
That's to be expected, it's a matter of survival, and you can't expect a CEO to stay in business if that is not his first concern. It's a native quality.
The truth-teller, IMHO, is what does it lead them to do? Will a person or party draw some lines on their behavior? Losing power is not losing a life, and fired politicians usually do well enough for themselves. Will they start wars and then tell the troops that adequate preparation isn't possible? Will they tell the public that "nobody could have known" when we all see (some of us with the help of foreigners) that they did in fact know, and just didn't give a shit? Faced with these enormous problems, will they stop congress for 45 minutes because some asshole is worried about his religious sensitivities?
Most of us are capable of serious evil - but most of us don't carry it out, and most of us negotiate our way around these issues, and some of us are very conscious about it.
Nixon set an example for the Republicans when he stood up and told us he wasn't a crook, knowing full well that he was a crook, and deluding himself - buying himself less than a day - into thinking we wouldn't find out.
Since Nixon, the entire party and almost every activist has adopted this model of behavior, and it has gotten us into a historic world of shit. The Republican party needs to go stand in the corner and flog itself for about 10 years or until they can keep their jihad shit to themselves, whichever is later.
Yeah, Democrats can be assholes. What they have never learned to do is match a third of the assholarity of the contermporary Republican party.
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