The GOP playbook. :-( I wonder if the GOP was always so hypocritical and self serving, or if this a symptom of our country's extreme polarization?
I mean McConnell said his goal was to make Obama a one term President, and it looks like that is the GOP's goal for Biden. I mean it seems they are trying to strip the President and the FED of powers and money that they just supported for Trump and the FED?
All because they do not want the economy to recover before the 2022 election. Really? They are willing to sabotage our country for political gain? Maybe I am done voting for Republicans until they start putting country and citizens before party.
I don't think Republicans have always been hypocrites. There was a time when they were mostly against slavery. But hypocrisy in politics is mostly a charge Republicans level against Democrats. It never seems to work or matter in the other direction. Whenever, rather infregquently, Democrats complain about Republican hypocrisy, the charges almost slide off with hardly any impact at all. It's one of the asymmentries of our politics.
ReplyDelete--Hiram
I disagree.
ReplyDeleteRarely have I heard GOPers call DEMs hypocrites.
Usually they call them baby killers and socialists.
And I think Trump and the GOP's support of him has made many like me question them.
Often it takes the form of double standard charges. Charges of double standards are a reflex to practically any criticism Democrats make.
ReplyDeleteLately, you see it a lot with Democratic leaders caught violating Covid rules. There is always video of Newsom of California dining out maskless. Hardly any video of me not dining out with or without a mask, for some reason. Al Gore flies on too many planes. But it never makes the news when I don't fly on airplanes.
--Hiram
If you choose to violate your own preaching, expect to be called on it.
ReplyDeleteWhat matters more? The preacher? Or the preaching? The argument if you undermine the advocate, what he says must be untrue. Do we accept that?
ReplyDeletePoliticians may violate the guidelines, but that comes at a cost. Yesterday, a Minnesota state senator who attended a superspreader political event died of Covid. Is it really in our interests to be guided by the personal behavior of politicians in these matters? Whatever issues of credibility might tell us?
--Hiram
Practicing what one preaches lends the Preacher credibility.
ReplyDeleteThe Preacher's Behavior and the Message are both important in most cases.
This death is somewhat ironic since he was MN GOPer.
Practicing what one preaches lends the Preacher credibility.
ReplyDeleteBut then credibility isn't the same thing as truthfulness.
I don't see how the poltiician's party affiliation is relevant. I am pretty sure the virus doesn't recognize party differences. If the credibility of policians is harmed when they defy guidelines, surely it is restored when they are infected by the virus. A number of our legislators made quite a point of not taking the virus seriously with predictable and inevitable consequences.
--Hiram
ReplyDeleteOf course they are different. A lot of people seem to think Trump is a credible source and he often abuses the truth.
credibility: "the quality of being trusted and believed in."
truth: "that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality."
If the dead politician was deemed credible and he said COVID was not a big deal. I mean few people die from it.... If he dies from it that harms his credibility. Though he does not care because he is dead. :-)