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In reply to the discussion: Here's the deal... [View all]calimary
(80,693 posts)This shit is just beyond discouraging! I've noticed more appeals lately that Dems start fighting like the GOP does. Ruthlessly, deviously, dirty.
Hey, if that's the way the game is played, I say we go all in. I say we BETTER go all in! FUCK this shit about taking a nice feather duster to a gunfight.
Many of us have been complaining about this FOR YEARS. TIRED of being nice. SICK of "taking the high road." I have observed, over the years, that taking the high road leads you straight over a cliff.
If we always take the high road, and the enemy takes the low road, we WILL lose. And we'll have that "lovely" satisfaction of being all moral and nice and high-minded - while we're shut out of power and the bad guys with the worst ideas and the shittiest motivations and the most crass and most sinister ulterior motives get to govern and lock their power in and cheat and lie and scheme and stack the deck and then get away with it.
I sincerely love Michelle Obama's invocation of our better angels: "when they go low, we go high." I love the sound of it and I love the meaning behind it. I believe that's how it should be. And I wish that was how it could be. But this is real life. Greed and lust for power are real. They're big-time motivators and the ultimate intoxicants. They actually won this time, needing to cheat to do so, but it helped them steal a win. And if we don't fight on those terms, we are simply kidding ourselves. And they will win again. As long as we face adversaries with this agenda, we simply cannot continue "being nice." Or "playing by the rules." When the other side basically says "Screw the rules!" then we're the ones who'll get screwed.
I wish it weren't this way! I wish both sides played fair. Because our side certainly seems to prefer it that way. But it takes two. And the other side would rather win. By any means necessary. At some point, Democrats really do have to stop playing nice.