2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Supporters - Please read my post [View all]TheKentuckian
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Straight up the advice on the TPP was to suck it.
Build on education deform? Please.
Build on opening relations with former fake enemies and neocon whipping posts? Absolutely!
Build on extending and encouraging franchise? Build away, build away!
Build on inclusion? You bet your ass!
Build on equal pay efforts? Yes!
Build on expanding renewables? Book it.
But I'm not tolerant of much less about to consider for a moment on building on our dragnet surveillance state or our fracking programs or sit quiet in reverence to a fucking flesh and blood, fallible, mortal human.
Add in that human is advised by and heavily influence a lot of clearly wrongheaded and people that are professional disaster architects and it is an easy call for me, I rather get busted up and keep on fighting than surrender much of what I fight for and reap the obvious fruit of bad made worse because we have destroyed not only the means to correct the course but even the thought that it is possible.
No thanks, I'll take a loss today rather than to surrender the field forever for what I believe to be wrong and further know doesn't work beneficially.
The line of reasoning is essentially dereliction of citizenship. You build on the good, you reject the bad, and you must never willfully abandon discernment between the two.
If you want to give unquestioning praise and unwavering reverence to perfection and infinite wisdom then it is religion you are looking for, this is politics and application of that sort of reasoning has not generally been successful for the general welfare and never true.
Accentuate the positive even while you forcefully and earnestly talk about where things must change I can buy.
It isnt rocket science to wrap the mind around the concept of a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
Even if you reject it in the end that I've tried and tried sugar and the medicine gets somehow left and this sack of Domino is gone through, who wouldn't at least respect good wisdom and generally sage advise but that was not the message.