"President Obama Has Earned Our Disapproval" The Atlantic, Nov 2014

[sabrina 1]

37. It doesn't bother me because it doesn't apply to me. If someone I love is doing something wrong

in my family or among my friends, I will not ignore it or deny it. To do that is not to be a good friend, not to care about that person. I will tell them what I think and try to stop them from engaging the wrong doing before they ruin their lives.

I feel the same way about MY PARTY. When it's on the wrong track, unlike those Bush supporters we used to criticize so harshly for ignoring, excusing, denying their party's wrong doing, I have no intention of trying to excuse it, explain it away or deny it.

We have only two viable parties, THIS one is OURS, we have nowhere else to go. It badly needs fixing and ignoring that is going ensure it will destroy itself in terms of keeping the trust of its voters. That has already happened. To fix that means facing FACTS. I cannot for the life of me understand ANYONE trying to excuse letting War Criminals off the hook, excusing torturers by 'explaining' why they did it, among other things. These things are just plain wrong and you cannot explain them away. So I don't even try.

The good thing about being consistent is that you never have to wiggle and squirm and explain or deny the facts.

What I opposed under Bush I still oppose. But I have noticed a disturbing trend among some people, suddenly unnecessary war can be 'explained' or 'torture' isn't as bad as we once claimed etc. That seems to be because of 'team spirit' to use a different analogy and definitely a loss of the moral compass.