determine what I do, then I have lost any pretense at a Moral Compass and ProActive control of my destiny and choices in life. I become a Re-Actor instead of a Leader.
If Just being a little better than the worst person is MY personal goal,
well, it is an easy task to always find somebody a little worse to rationalize away any guilt over a betrayal of what one claims to value.
Just being Better than the Republicans is the morality that has enabled the Democratic Party
to abandon the values that made our Party GREAT.
That is a creepy way to live,
but you are perfectly entitled to live that way if you so choose.
Thank gawd that LBJ, warts and all, had the intestinal moral fortitude to STAND UP and LEAD by doing the RIGHT thing with the Civil Rights Act despite the foreknowledge of the political consequences.
Paul Wellstone, locked in a close re-election campaign in 2002,
voted AGAINST the Iraq War despite ALL the warnings from the pundits, Party Advisers, and Talking Heads who predicted that it would cost him the election.
When questioned WHY he did that, despite the certain Political Cost,
He said, "I HAD to do the Right Thing."
Ironically, Wellstone surged ahead in the polls the next day.
Most people respect those who STAND UP and Do the RIGHT thing,
and let the pieces fall where they may.
[font color=firebrick size=3][center]"If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for,
at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them."
--- Paul Wellstone[/font][/center]
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Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center][/font]
[font size=5 color=firebrick]Solidarity![/font]
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