SOME people are like that. I certainly have to fight that tendency in myself. But I think that most of us are more like me than like Ms Black n White.
PS, a LOT of what happens isn’t the fault of any particular politician(s) in the first place. Casting blame is another regrettable human tendency. Seems to me that the best antidote is more careful “online-research”, more thoughtful pauses, and less inflammatory posts with less inflammatory language. Plus a bit of “put yourself in their shoes” — aka empathy — and s dash of humility.
Huzzah, Theodore! Three decent strips this week. Can the streak continue? BTW the St. Louis Cardinals just had a run of seventeen, Set your sights, Ted.
Some news outlets love the feeding frenzy of devouring the latest Dem leader. And when one network refuses to engage in said frenzy, they are branded as being liberal, perish the thought.
When the public sphere is dominated by a drive to entertain, dramatizing everything to increase audience size, treating all affiliations as team sports, what ever do you expect? Stay tuned tomorrow for the next exciting installment…
I sometimes get some other Democrats disagreeing with me for not excusing behavior of elected Democrats. But it doesn’t get heated. The reason I moved away from Republican party ins 2008 was because I would get attacked with hatred and vitriol whenever I even made the smallest criticism of a republican.
Ted you have captured the essence of Continuous Campaigning.
Good on ya.
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Karl Rove’s conception of Continuous Campaigning has been breathtakingly successful. It has taken nearly ALL focus off governing and finding solutions to problems. The Republican* wet dream has come to fruition, so to speak.
The thing is, the republicans directed all the tax dollars to billionaires who set up ‘foundations’ to organize right wing zealots to harass school boards and electors so they would quit and be replaced by a right wing zealot.
Daeder over 2 years ago
Mostly true.
Although one party does hold its own members accountable to their behavior, and the other one never does.
Concretionist over 2 years ago
SOME people are like that. I certainly have to fight that tendency in myself. But I think that most of us are more like me than like Ms Black n White.
PS, a LOT of what happens isn’t the fault of any particular politician(s) in the first place. Casting blame is another regrettable human tendency. Seems to me that the best antidote is more careful “online-research”, more thoughtful pauses, and less inflammatory posts with less inflammatory language. Plus a bit of “put yourself in their shoes” — aka empathy — and s dash of humility.
Havel over 2 years ago
’Tis human nature: “my tribe, good; your tribe, bad”. Maybe a recognition and reassessment of that would be beneficial?
countoftowergrove over 2 years ago
Huzzah, Theodore! Three decent strips this week. Can the streak continue? BTW the St. Louis Cardinals just had a run of seventeen, Set your sights, Ted.
Raging Moderate over 2 years ago
The biggest joke of all is listening to GOP congress people talk about holding the Biden Administration accountable.
preacherman over 2 years ago
Some news outlets love the feeding frenzy of devouring the latest Dem leader. And when one network refuses to engage in said frenzy, they are branded as being liberal, perish the thought.
smartgrr over 2 years ago
This is so true. It does feel like one party is worse than the other, but I’m biased.
martens over 2 years ago
When the public sphere is dominated by a drive to entertain, dramatizing everything to increase audience size, treating all affiliations as team sports, what ever do you expect? Stay tuned tomorrow for the next exciting installment…
StackableContainers over 2 years ago
I sometimes get some other Democrats disagreeing with me for not excusing behavior of elected Democrats. But it doesn’t get heated. The reason I moved away from Republican party ins 2008 was because I would get attacked with hatred and vitriol whenever I even made the smallest criticism of a republican.
braindead Premium Member over 2 years ago
Ted you have captured the essence of Continuous Campaigning.
Good on ya.
.
Karl Rove’s conception of Continuous Campaigning has been breathtakingly successful. It has taken nearly ALL focus off governing and finding solutions to problems. The Republican* wet dream has come to fruition, so to speak.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
The thing is, the republicans directed all the tax dollars to billionaires who set up ‘foundations’ to organize right wing zealots to harass school boards and electors so they would quit and be replaced by a right wing zealot.
rossevrymn over 2 years ago
False equivalency alert!!!!!