Who believes minorities can’t succeed on their own merits?
Which side’s voters didn’t vote for McCain because he was white?
On which side and of what ethnicity are the only, I repeat the ONLY, citizens who still overwhelmingly approve of BO’s performance?
On which side were the Black Panthers who made racist statements at the poll in Philadelphia?
Who dismissed the already-won case against them?
Who ruled against white firefighters in Connecticut after they duly earned their promotions, and spoke repeatedly of a Latina’s superiority over a white man?
Who nominated her to the U.S. Supreme Court?
Who said white people will not be subject to civil rights laws and judgments?
Who attended the church of a raving bigot, and on which side of the aisle is said bigot?
Who automatically assigned blame to the white cop in Massachusetts before knowing any of the facts?

I’d go on, but documenting all examples of democrats’ bigotry would take time and technology I don’t have.

“And maybe he did something he shouldn’t have done, and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that’s what a good person does. There are no perfect people. There are certainly no perfect politicians.”

When I first read that Bill Clinton quote I thought wow… he said “MAYBE” joining the KKK was something Byrd shouldn’t have done?! I was surprised. Sure, the “just did it to get elected” is cynical and telling, but even in hindsight of all these decades, it’s still a maybe?

How many good people avoid politics because the moral price is too high?
Which statements and actions from a pol aren’t just to get elected?
It seems as though campaigning and governing used to be two different things. Now, governing is really campaigning between elections.

Imagine if just for one issue, the politics of party gave way to the priority of principles.
Imagine if every speech from a pol on just that one issue wasn’t also campaigning for the next election.

Would that be so much to ask?
Just one issue where each “side” didn’t have to demonize the “other side” to try to get the upper hand in the next election hoping to gain or maintain the majority. Maybe the best ideas could rise to the top, when party politics didn’t act as a kind of honesty suppressant.

It seems impossible, as long as the inequities of majority remain the primary driver of politics.
Besides, the contrast would be so striking it would almost require split personality disorder.

So I guess it’s the inequities of majority rule that must be eliminated first!

Dan
“Live with Passion”