Reply #48: Why so hard to stand for something?

[highprincipleswork]

I've got to ask - what makes it so hard to stand for something, or to stand up against people who are clearly delusional and/or hypocrites, spouting a bunch of nonsense that not only has been proven to be wrong but has lost at the polls, at least in the 2008 election?

What is so hard about that?

I seriously can't imagine why Democrats, including President Obama, have trouble standing up for things that are right, sensible, and even proven by many polls to be statistically popular.

Standing up for the right thing is always the more powerful position. But it doesn't sell itself. The "big lie" is also very popular, but not when confronted with an obvious and provable and even palatable truth. It's just the Democrats seem hypnotized by all the brainwashing. Or the money. Or their message machine is out of order. Or they just don't understand what has been circulating in another post - people don't care about policies and bills and all that minutiae - they care about how it feels and especially does it feel correct.

That's common sense. Common sense and courage and the willingness to counter falsehoods at every turn.

Why don't we have Democratic leaders like that?

As you can tell by my hame here - I believe that high principles work. I believe they work every time, in the long run. But they have to be used in order to work.