Reply #160: Wow, love your passion, it is sorely lacking on the political landscape

[Catrina]

over the past five years ~

I keep hearing that Hackett should realize that being betrayed by your own side is the way politics are and he should just accept it and move on.

Maybe, if times were different, but in these times, I have to disagree ~ I have never seen anything like the crimes and lies and destruction of rights that has become today's business as usual.

Difficult times require a different kind of politics. There hasn't been enough outrage at the incredible crimes committed by this administratoin. Politics as usual did nothing to stop them ~ imo, voices like Paul Hackett's and Cindy's are what is needed.

Maybe neither of them would be suitable for politics in different times, but then we'd never have heard of them had not the times demanded that someone step forward and call a liar a liar, or an SOB and SOB. Maybe when things return to normal they will not be needed, and in fact as some here have said, they may not be suitable for public life, when that happens. But we're not there yet, and we need them now. We need more of them ~

Paul Hackett is veteran of the war, Cindy lost her son in the same war ~ they have credibility and they resonate with many who were on the fence.

I know how I felt, after four years of virtually no opposition to the ruling party, when I first heard both of them. It was like a breath of fresh air, a little late, but they spoke for all the powerless and broke the spell that seemed to have descended on the nation, the one that made it a law that no citizen dare speak ill of the president. I wonder how different things might be now, had there been more of them in the beginning ~