Can YOU Stand Another 4 To 8 Years Of A Progressive Sounding Democrat... Governing...

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83. Indeed, a point too often overlooked.

I agree that people change, we all do. The things that make the big difference in answering the questions asked up-thread (and elsewhere in on the interwebs) are context and timing... when was EW a practicing R and what was the political environment, not just on the national stage but also from her POV and placement in the world then? Have to look at the whole salad.

I credit many individuals with changing their POV and actually considering our local, national and global context in time within which we are here and trying to determine which direction we need to head - at least they evaluate for a while. I don't see a whole lot of that online as much as I do among my community members. There are some who for whatever reasons, claim that changing their way of seeing the world is either evil or *whatever* ...they are the problem in general. The biggest part of the problem is when that faction of "no change is good" have managed to conduct a complete take over of an allegedly democratic republic (via nefarious means as well) with full intention of foisting their ideology on everyone else with dire consequences for resisting... which is what we have now. The reliance on ignorance for the sake of retaining such power is obvious at this point but I digress.

I think that if there were any lessons to be learned by EW after a long relationship with the Rs, she's learned them. I have seen this in others and I am only disappointed that it doesn't seem to be enough.