Excuse Me?


Wherein Our Heroine is Fed Up.
In brief: supporting someone does not mean supporting everything they do, think, or believe.

For quite a while now, there has been a cheap rhetorical dodge allowed in our political discourse: if you support a candidate, then you support everything they do. Ludicrous. Think if this was applied to the rest of life. Have you approved of everything you loved ones have done? Have you had to distance yourself from everyone you believe has made a mistake or done something you disapprove of?

If your answer was "Yes" to either of those, either you are lying or you have no friends.

So let's knock off the sanctimonious posturing. Choose your positions carefully, select whom you support based on those positions and know that it's never going to match 100%. Life is compromise. Life is real. I may daydream about living on my own island where none of this affects me, but that is it: it's only a daydream.

Aiming for a civil discourse is at least more realistic than thinking that you could ever find two humans who agree all the time.
Posted: Wednesday - July 21, 2004 at 08:15 AM         | |

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