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Originally posted by geep
It has become more of a game to the participants than a method of government. Each side wants to win more than make intelligent choices. The sad part is that the stakes are so high.
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*Bows*
Sadly, you've encapsulated the problem perfectly. People who wanted to hang Bill Clinton for his sexual misconduct (which was consensual) ignore Arnold's history of alleged sexual assaults because he's on "their side"; but then, how many of Clinton's defenders were attacking Clarence Thomas only a few years before? Accepting a Rhodes Scholarship makes you a draft-dodger, but going AWOL from a reserve program doesn't. Dugs are bad if you have a little pot, but cocaine is a youthful indiscretion and a painkiller addiction is a media conspiracy. And let's not even go to the DNC's fallout with the Greens...
It's doublethink of the worst sight by people who have become so mired in the system, and thinking about how to win, they've lost track of the notion that the system is their to produce quality governance that reflects the wishes of the people.