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Originally Posted by livius drusus
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Originally Posted by Roland98
And right now I am just tired and nauseated, because it came down to "moral values" (whatever those are of Bush's, I have no clue) and willful ignorance. You can't fight those.
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You can. The Republicans have been successfully redefining moral values for 30 years and you see how thorough a job they've done of it. We are not rhetorically weaponless on any issue, including this one.
The United States has a myriad contradictory moral traditions. The right wing has picked up a few and run with them consistently and hard, building alliances, shifting goalposts, until next thing you know, we're literally in tears over how thoroughly alienated from American political discourse progressive positions have become.
It wasn't always this way, it doesn't have to be this way and it won't be this way forever because, simply stated, things change and so will we. |
Could be, but my kids won't be young forever, and I can't wait 30 years for them to swing back.