You must've missed stoked's tirade from a few nights ago calling us a bunch of sanctimonious assholes lol. In my experience as a lefty I'm often accused of being naive, of having faux outrage, being a paid soros shill (lol), back in the Bush years of being an un-American who hates his country etc.
I want to make sweet love to this post. You articulate things way better than I could. It probably doesn't help starting replies with, "I want to make sweet love to this post" or ending them with, "hehepeepeecaca," but you get the point.This, in spades. It is hilarious how many people here (an in our country really) have this fallacy that if you aren't for one side you must be 100% for the other. And it is intellectually lazy to keep saying "oh not another 'both sides suck' comment". Both sides do suck. There is a middle in this country, and frankly the vast majority of people actually fall somewhere to the right of the left and to the left of the right. The best thing we could have happen in our political world would be the rise of a third viable party.
I cannot stand Trump. He has proven himself to be a misogynist, racist, self-serving, unstable blow-hard. Sorry, but that truth, does not make a claim that the democrats then are the exact opposite, without fault and perfect in every way, to be true. It is truly a lesser of 2 evils right now. And the in-fighting is worse than it has ever been in our country. It is painfully obvious, for those who can slip the blinders long enough to look, that both sides are only about the power. Not that the power dynamic hasn't always been an issue, but how often in the last 20 years have you heard about politicians voting against party lines because it is what their constituency would want, or because it is for the betterment of the country, or because they realize that to help people we need some compromise? Hardly ever, imo. There was a time not too long ago (if 30 years isn't too long, feels short when you are getting old), when this happened with some regularity, and the government not so arguably ran far better than it does now. How many times in the history of our country has a congress failed to pass a budget? It is becoming more and more common for the disagreements to extend out the time to pass budgetary bills.
So stop the act that, since the republicans right now are largely assholes and degenerates (Jazz Fanz company excepted of course, and not really representative of the entirety of the republican party), it does not immediately mean that all democrats need to be sainted for their purity and moral superiority. They are all power-hungry. And the partisanship right now is incredibly damaging to the US as a whole.
So it is not only possible, but reasonable and logical, to be unhappy with both sides. If your kids are playing in the mud, will you punish the one who is the dirtiest and reward the one who might be less dirty at the moment?
But yes, right now we need some parity in congress to balance out the crap. A ****-scale if you will, balanced by cow pies on one side and dog turds on the other. Because the worst possible scenarios play out when only the ******* or the ******* run the entire show.
The ****er went after me one time for being divorced. The guy is 100% piece of ****.
Both Kavanaugh and Blasey-Ford were effective and "compelling". One way to make sense of the "he said, she said" is that it was someone else who attacked her. Republicans favor this possibility. Another way to make sense of it is that Brett Kavanaugh was a heavy teenage drinker and he may have done exactly what she said he did, and it just didn't register as a big deal and he forgot about it. He did not rape her, he never got her clothes off, and both of the boys present were laughing. (According to the victim). As scary and traumatizing as it would have been to her, for the boys it could have been not such a big deal. A failed attempt, that faded from memory. His reluctance to be truthful about his drinking behavior, leads me to believe that is closer to the truth than the mistaken identity idea. Other explanations require belief that Blasey-Ford is part of the conspiracy to keep the dems from turning the tables on the repubs and keeping the seat open until the next presidential election. Anyone who watched her testimony with an open mind will find that hard to swallow.
This, in spades. It is hilarious how many people here (an in our country really) have this fallacy that if you aren't for one side you must be 100% for the other. And it is intellectually lazy to keep saying "oh not another 'both sides suck' comment". Both sides do suck. There is a middle in this country, and frankly the vast majority of people actually fall somewhere to the right of the left and to the left of the right. The best thing we could have happen in our political world would be the rise of a third viable party.
I cannot stand Trump. He has proven himself to be a misogynist, racist, self-serving, unstable blow-hard. Sorry, but that truth, does not make a claim that the democrats then are the exact opposite, without fault and perfect in every way, to be true. It is truly a lesser of 2 evils right now. And the in-fighting is worse than it has ever been in our country. It is painfully obvious, for those who can slip the blinders long enough to look, that both sides are only about the power. Not that the power dynamic hasn't always been an issue, but how often in the last 20 years have you heard about politicians voting against party lines because it is what their constituency would want, or because it is for the betterment of the country, or because they realize that to help people we need some compromise? Hardly ever, imo. There was a time not too long ago (if 30 years isn't too long, feels short when you are getting old), when this happened with some regularity, and the government not so arguably ran far better than it does now. How many times in the history of our country has a congress failed to pass a budget? It is becoming more and more common for the disagreements to extend out the time to pass budgetary bills.
So stop the act that, since the republicans right now are largely assholes and degenerates (Jazz Fanz company excepted of course, and not really representative of the entirety of the republican party), it does not immediately mean that all democrats need to be sainted for their purity and moral superiority. They are all power-hungry. And the partisanship right now is incredibly damaging to the US as a whole.
So it is not only possible, but reasonable and logical, to be unhappy with both sides. If your kids are playing in the mud, will you punish the one who is the dirtiest and reward the one who might be less dirty at the moment?
But yes, right now we need some parity in congress to balance out the crap. A ****-scale if you will, balanced by cow pies on one side and dog turds on the other. Because the worst possible scenarios play out when only the ******* or the ******* run the entire show.
This opinion is probably not that popular but I think what this country really needs is a truly left wing party with strong support for labor and whose primary interest isn't Wallstreet and corporate donors.
Yeah no worries man, I thought was more amusing than anything.
yeah, liars would do the research and not leave the gaps. Her telling is consistent with the way trauma works on memory...though as a psychologist she would know that. Not that I'm saying she left the gaps on purpose. She probably chose psychology as a field of study, at least in part, because of this. Many people in my field, social work, have similar experiences. It is not at all uncommon.
I guess it makes sense that we're more aware of the anger being directed at us personally. I thought Log's recent post about the entire situation was excellent.
