I get the point. We can’t be spending all our time trying for payback. The insanity has to end sometime and why shouldn’t it begin with me? Revenge is all-consuming and a distraction from making real progress. I get it, but here’s the rub.
If you put out my eye and there are no consequences, what’s to stop you from putting out my other eye? There has to be some penalty for your bad behavior to stop you from doing it again.
Democrats haven’t figured this out yet. We look weak when we turn the other cheek (see Barack Obama), but open ourselves to hypocrisy when we act like Republicans after criticizing them for their actions. I fear Progressives are just following Republican’s actions. We are starting to hear repudiation of the “when they go low, we go high” philosophy, but without an alternate course of action that doesn’t result in taking out another eye.
Does somebody have an idea? I’m tired of looking weak, feeling bad and losing.
Incompetent, Irrelevant & Immaterial! 