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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-07-11 08:14 PM Original message |
Perhaps we hold ourselves to a higher standard to a fault. |
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LiberalLoner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-07-11 08:18 PM Response to Original message |
1. K&R |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-08-11 02:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. Thanks. nt |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-07-11 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
2. Actually, we hold our representatives, not ourselves to a higher standard |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-07-11 08:38 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. You're right, of course. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-07-11 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
3. Actually it is simpler than that |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-07-11 08:41 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Maybe it all comes down to letting the right frame the argument. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-07-11 08:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. And that is part of the problem modern day |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-07-11 08:51 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Perhaps framing could be restructured |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-07-11 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
8. I loved his support for single-payer |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-08-11 02:13 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. I doubt he's an effective voice for anything anymore, unfortunately |
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RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-08-11 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
11. By today's standards, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, to name just two, |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-08-11 03:20 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I wonder how we got to this point |
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RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-08-11 03:35 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Well, there's kind of a self-promoting meme that's been circulating since |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-08-11 08:25 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Maybe part of the problem is that we try to see them as representing something |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-08-11 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
15. This obsession with the personal morality of politicians started with the Boomers, I think. |
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