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Sen. Murphy's response was really good! Bipartisanship and crossing the aisle is great, and I want more elected officials to do that (and to continue to do that) with thoughtfulness and integrity, but when the GOP is passing something that changes the very definition of calendar time (wakeuptopolitics.com/p/…) simply so they can decline …
Sen. Murphy's response was really good! Bipartisanship and crossing the aisle is great, and I want more elected officials to do that (and to continue to do that) with thoughtfulness and integrity, but when the GOP is passing something that changes the very definition of calendar time (https://www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/house-quietly-ducks-trump-tariff) simply so they can decline a check on executive authority, then holding the opposition up as being unwilling to "cross the aisle" is just putting forth a false dichotomy: "You have to work with us no matter how we're acting, or you're the problem!"
Yes! Exactly! Very well put. There is no compromise when one side is never willing to concede or take input into consideration.
Totally agree. I am so glad to see you here!
Nice to see your name today Emily 🤗 and that last sentence is how I feel lately for sure.
Yes. This is how I feel
How can a day not be a day? It is this underhanded, illogical nonsense that turns me away from partisanship and makes me think "burn it all down". Also "I don't care what the judges think." Laws were supposed to reign in all of this cray. It is not happening.
It's illogical because, while it may be about the label of Democrats versus Republicans, it is NOT about being Liberal versus being Conservative (no matter how many times the MAGA folks try to reframe any critique as being "anti-conservative.") Donald Trump is not a conservative President, and MAGA is not a conservative movement. They are exactly the kind of radicals that they consider "the left" to be, and they are radically reshaping the government in their image. I think it's important to reject, and to continue to reject, the idea that this is about the classic policy struggle between two opposing schools of political thought (progressive vs conservative) and look past what the administration is saying to see what they are doing. It's not conservative. It never was.
I fully believe this, but I had a friend point out the other day that unfortunately important words and their meanings have been co-opted and/or bastardized by the movement, such that terms that actually apply to the moment (fascism, authoritarianism, undemocratic, etc) are not useful for communicating across differences because they’ve been stripped of their meaning. The loss of shared language in our culture has been a real contributor to this mess we’re in.
Don't reach across the aisle if you're just going to stick your hand in hot glue.