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It Gives Us No Pleasure To Have Been Right About Everything...
Dear Republicans:
I know that you are unhappy with us right now. You suspect that we must naturally feel a sense of smug superiority, perhaps even a surge of sanctimonious glee at having been right about literally everything. I want to assure you that nothing could be farther from the truth. It gives us no pleasure at all to have been proven right about all the many things we have been trying to tell you over and over for all this time.
Naturally, you might suspect, now that more than half a million Americans have died preventable deaths as a result of your wrongness about the importance of masking and social distancing, and then your subsequent wrongness about the safety and efficacy of vaccines, that we would be inclined to really rub it in your faces. “Ha, ha,” you might think we would say. “We told you all those people would die tragically and unnecessarily!” But that is not what is in our hearts. Our decision to trust medical professionals and public health experts turned out to be right, whereas your decision to just do whatever you wanted did not pan out. We’re not going to play the “blame game.”
Similarly, it brings us no satisfaction to see the incontestable evidence that we were right about climate change: the wildfires raging, the deepening drought, the flooding, the heat waves, the Cat 5 hurricanes. Our decision to heed the warnings of every climate scientist in the world for the last forty years turned out to be the correct one. Had it instead been the case that the entire scientific community was wrong and whatever you read on the internet was right, we would have admitted our mistake – graciously and with relief. We’re not going to get all self-righteous about the rapidly-unfolding catastrophe.
True, Back in 2016, we were able to predict that a megalomaniacal, xenophobic, misogynistic, nepotistic con-man might not be a great choice for President -- and you were not. Hindsight is 20/20, as they say, and it was entirely possible that this man who had never demonstrated any ability to grow or change might have grown and changed. Sadly, that did not occur. Then in 2020, we were able to correctly ascertain that this irredeemable dumpster fire lost a free, fair, and accurately counted election to a well-qualified and moderate opponent -- whereas you wrongly concluded that the results must have been tainted by fraud or conspiracy since, as you incorrectly knew, Biden is a big old Commie.
LINK TO FULL ARTICLE:
[link:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/6/2044201/-It-Gives-Us-No-Pleasure-To-Have-Been-Right-About-Everything|
I know that you are unhappy with us right now. You suspect that we must naturally feel a sense of smug superiority, perhaps even a surge of sanctimonious glee at having been right about literally everything. I want to assure you that nothing could be farther from the truth. It gives us no pleasure at all to have been proven right about all the many things we have been trying to tell you over and over for all this time.
Naturally, you might suspect, now that more than half a million Americans have died preventable deaths as a result of your wrongness about the importance of masking and social distancing, and then your subsequent wrongness about the safety and efficacy of vaccines, that we would be inclined to really rub it in your faces. “Ha, ha,” you might think we would say. “We told you all those people would die tragically and unnecessarily!” But that is not what is in our hearts. Our decision to trust medical professionals and public health experts turned out to be right, whereas your decision to just do whatever you wanted did not pan out. We’re not going to play the “blame game.”
Similarly, it brings us no satisfaction to see the incontestable evidence that we were right about climate change: the wildfires raging, the deepening drought, the flooding, the heat waves, the Cat 5 hurricanes. Our decision to heed the warnings of every climate scientist in the world for the last forty years turned out to be the correct one. Had it instead been the case that the entire scientific community was wrong and whatever you read on the internet was right, we would have admitted our mistake – graciously and with relief. We’re not going to get all self-righteous about the rapidly-unfolding catastrophe.
True, Back in 2016, we were able to predict that a megalomaniacal, xenophobic, misogynistic, nepotistic con-man might not be a great choice for President -- and you were not. Hindsight is 20/20, as they say, and it was entirely possible that this man who had never demonstrated any ability to grow or change might have grown and changed. Sadly, that did not occur. Then in 2020, we were able to correctly ascertain that this irredeemable dumpster fire lost a free, fair, and accurately counted election to a well-qualified and moderate opponent -- whereas you wrongly concluded that the results must have been tainted by fraud or conspiracy since, as you incorrectly knew, Biden is a big old Commie.
LINK TO FULL ARTICLE:
[link:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/6/2044201/-It-Gives-Us-No-Pleasure-To-Have-Been-Right-About-Everything|
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... "owns the libs" 
is something that can keep me awake at night........
How can I be SO WRONG on so many things - and yet be on the 'better side' of each issue? 
