Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Sounds like they just don't think that Hill can win.

 

Well, he is injecting himself into local issues. Whether you agree with doing it is a separate issue, but he's definitely doing it.

 

Stay classy, Red State 'Murica.
http://www.thestate.com/news/politi...s-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article88759697.html

 

Should have added this initially ... institutional/systemic racial issues are most decidedly NOT a local issue.

 

I'm not a particular fan of Ezra Klein, and I still don't intend to vote for Hillary, but this was one of the more insightful things I've read about her in a while. It explains a good bit of the way she operates, for good and for ill.

http://www.vox.com/a/hillary-clinton-interview/the-gap-listener-leadership-quality

 

So you are not a fan of Ezra Klein?

 

So nice, he posted thrice! LOL

 

Blech. Bayh's time (and that of his East Coast analogue, Mark Warner) has passed. This is the age of Trump and Bernie. Nobody wants the concilatory, centrist dog food that Bayh is selling. Even the Clintons are running away from the New Democrat legacy.

 

Here's how:

People sometimes make personal decisions and choices -- ones that don't always fully align with black-and-white political beliefs. (Which says something about how maybe political beliefs can't, and should not always be, black and white, of course. But that's another post/thread).

For example, I'm a Democrat by political affiliation -- for the most part. And that is key. Just as in BTE's re-worked example, a person may be Republican, and yet, if not exactly OK with it, still able to live with, participating in wars and supporting the rights of gun ownership and use, no matter what.

But, if I were, say, trying to make a decision about whether to have an abortion, I would, in that instance, become more Christian than Democrat, and probably not do it. (And, I suspect, this is how it is for most Democrats). With regard to war, I personally would say/think that it would depend on the circumstances. I do think that there are some values/issues worth dying for and protecting, even with our lives, if needed. So, in that instance, I might suddenly become more political, and even, Republican, than I am Christian, or even Democrat.

Someone else might make different decisions/choices in such instances. There is a difference between the personal and the political, and often, that difference won't truly manifest itself until someone is impacted directly instead of just influenced intellectually.

That's a large part of the problem with politics, and our political threads, actually, and why we have so many problems on them. The personal/political conflict seems to make compromise impossible, or, if not impossible, then at least unlikely, because appearances matter to us, sometimes more than anything.

 

Even less of a fan of the board server, which has apparently melted in the summer heat. Did Jeff get put in the hospital by a bottle rocket or something?

 

Black-and-white politics you say? Where? LOL. Even better that o_t liked this post.

 

Excellent post BTW.