why i fear for the future...
Sep. 29th, 2005 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"Will we learn from DeLay's fall about the self-destructive nature of the team mentality? Of course not. The Democrats have drawn the 10-years-out-of-date conclusion that in order to win, they need to be just like Tom DeLay. They need to rigidly hew to orthodoxy. They need Deaniac hyperpartisanship. They need to organize their hatreds around Bush the way the Republicans did around Clinton." -- David Brooks
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two wrongs don't make a right. two wrongs simply make *both* sides Right.
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two wrongs don't make a right. two wrongs simply make *both* sides Right.
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Date: 2005-09-29 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-29 06:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-29 06:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-29 06:45 pm (UTC)as delay's rantings have shown (and is the subject of the editorial i quoted from here), those who see the world strictly as "teams" or partisanship simply can't see any other alternative, nor can they even see that *others* see it as anything but partisanship.
and because its the "easier" way to see the world, those who see the world strictly through "the party" are more easily able to sell their view of partisanship, and by selling their view, they also sell the idea that their party is the better.
this is actually a key reason democrats lost in '04 -- they weren't trying to sell "the party", they were trying to sell each candidate (including Kerry) on their individual merits alone. THE PARTY won.
under these terms, the quote applies: the only way to beat THE PARTY is to play THE PARTY game. people as a whole are now too sold on the idea, and nobody wants to ever feel they bought into a con game (even though that's EXACTLY what happened).
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Date: 2005-09-30 05:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-29 07:06 pm (UTC)You can be the first president of the club.
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Date: 2005-09-30 05:45 pm (UTC)as for president, i don't want to be president of anything! too much scrutiny. i'll settle for in-the-background, really-running the show, VP role instead. *g*
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Date: 2005-09-30 06:23 pm (UTC)I don't know. VP? I think President Dawnie sounds much better. Although, come to think of it, you've always seemed *very* VERY interested in vices. Hmmmmmm.
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Date: 2005-09-29 07:02 pm (UTC)Tsk, tsk. I sure there are some that would claim two wrongs simply make *both* sides Left.
I think two wrongs simply make *both* sides wrong.
i meant what i said
Date: 2005-09-29 07:07 pm (UTC)while we're at it, the pull to the right is making the left so marginalized its powerless anyways, so my quote is correct on THAT aspect of the wordplay as well.
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Date: 2005-09-30 05:46 pm (UTC)