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In reply to the discussion: President Barack Obama personally intervened to change party platform on God, Jerusalem [View all]leveymg
(36,418 posts)Last edited Sun Sep 9, 2012, 08:31 AM - Edit history (1)
listening to you and serving your interests, 100%, then give them 110% (the extra effort as inducement). But, if I don't feel particularly well-served on some issues that are important to me -- and I could provide a laundry-list, but I won't bore you -- then I am not bound by my own past levels of effort.
I think you are confusing duties with choices. I have a civic duty to do certain things (those things should always be done with full effort), but am not obligated nor is it in my self-interest to choose to reward what I determine to be inadequate performance by politicians, and certainly won't reward outright insult and shut-out by those in the President's circle (e.g, "fucking morons" . It is not my duty to reward those whose performance is in some important way unsatisfactory - all public acts by officials are open to judgement -- and, only I am entitled to choose what is important to me. You can make a judgment about my choices, but that is only your opinion, and I am not beholden to you.
This is not a case of resentment against others for their choices, nor am I being hyperbolic.