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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a life long democrat, and I still consider myself a Democrat, but it turns out that I am getting old (37) and it looks like today is the day I am turning in my liberal card and taking the moderate one.

I am not even comfortable expressing these thoughts publicly, but I am trying them out anonymously, and I am happy to hear other sides or consider other views.

My first reaction to the photo was - "yikes, that is horrible; one of the worst photos I have seen."  I still really don't know how Northam recovers from this - I am not sure he can.  And I also thought, maybe I can't have any thoughts on the topic because I am not black.  But, I am Jewish.  So I thought, what if he had dressed as a Nazi?  Would I want him to resign?  At first, I thought: probably, yes, I would want him to resign, but my friend said: "what if he said it was a bad joke and he was sorry and has learned the error of his ways?  You and the world have forgiven Prince Harry for something similar."  And I think she was right.  I think I would not be happy, but I would like to forgive as I have done with Prince Harry.  I don't think I want a standard where our politicians have to be perfect and to have never made mistakes in the past.  If in order to hold office you have to have never suffered a lapse in judgment, we would have a really small pool of candidates and I don't think we want that.

I am getting so old that I think what an R has to say is also relevant here: Dan Crenshaw: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-made-amends-with-pete-davidson-on-snl-but-thats-only-the-beginning/2018/11/13/e7314fb0-e77e-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.f56064b88da5

"I also could not help but note that this was another chapter in a phenomenon that has taken complete control of the national discourse: outrage culture. It seems like every not-so-carefully-worded public misstep must be punished to the fullest extent, replete with soapbox lectures and demands for apologies. Anyone who doesn’t show the expected level of outrage will be labeled a coward or an apologist for bad behavior."

I am not impressed with the VA right and their outrage culture acting like the Ds are for infanticide (I'm looking at you, with this part of the article from Dan Crenshaw: How, then, do we live together in this world of differing ideas? For starters, let’s agree that the ideas are fair game. If you think my idea is awful, you should say as much. But there is a difference between attacking an idea and attacking the person behind that idea. Labeling someone as an “-ist” who believes in an “-ism” because of the person’s policy preference is just a shortcut to playground-style name-calling, cloaked in political terminology. It’s also generally a good indication that the attacker doesn’t have a solid argument and needs a way to end debate before it has even begun.").  But now I feel the Ds are using outrage culture, too.

To the extent my feelings on Kavanaugh are relevant, they can be summarized in the below article:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/toddessig/2018/09/25/the-kavanaugh-hearing-is-not-he-said-she-said-its-she-remembers-what-he-did-he-doesnt/?fbclid=IwAR0hNgtcG3t7PeOhHSlxkB_XMneeFjzkiID3CDUxotq1lvrJbBEOkb6spxA#4b822fe65a09

Fairfax seems good, so I don't really have any concerns about him taking over.  What I have concerns about is the democrat party being increasingly intolerant.  [b]We should not tolerate active racism[/b], but maybe we should tolerate learning from past mistakes.

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It should begin and end with the bolded. Everything else is noise. He should have come public with this himself long ago. He didn't control the message. That is his mistake.[/quote]

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