Antone's Nightclub
Revisionist History: 'They Faced It Like Adults' by Impeaching the President
RECEIVED Mon., Nov. 22, 2004
Dear Editor,
I would be distressed by these people claiming that they are going to move to Canada and elsewhere, but I have to ask is their leaving a bad thing? You did not have a bunch of conservatives claiming that they were going to Australia during the eight years of darkness for them that was the Clinton administration. There was no declaration of how divided we were as a country even though Clinton never got more than 49% of the vote. While many did question the wisdom of the Clinton voter there was not this massive insulting of the voters’ IQ.
Instead of abandoning the country after the voters expressed their desires in the Nineties, the conservatives rolled up their sleeves and worked to advance their ideology. In my opinion they made a compromise with the moderate presidency of GWB, but they did not run off and hide or seek therapy. They faced it like adults and learned from their defeats. They were strong enough to admit that their losses were, at least in part, their own fault. They did not blame voter intelligence (knowing they would need these same voters’ support later) or engage in conspiracy theories.
Now it could be that the USA, the Democratic Party, and the progressive movement will be made stronger by those leaving. This could be viewed as a culling of the herd as the weak members voluntarily remove themselves from it and run off to Canada and elsewhere leaving more resources for the stronger ones. The strong ones who remain can now work like the conservatives did during the Nineties to advance their ideology. Although for my money it is going to take more than repackaging rejected decades- or even centuries-old social/economic ideas as "progressive."
I would be distressed by these people claiming that they are going to move to Canada and elsewhere, but I have to ask is their leaving a bad thing? You did not have a bunch of conservatives claiming that they were going to Australia during the eight years of darkness for them that was the Clinton administration. There was no declaration of how divided we were as a country even though Clinton never got more than 49% of the vote. While many did question the wisdom of the Clinton voter there was not this massive insulting of the voters’ IQ.
Instead of abandoning the country after the voters expressed their desires in the Nineties, the conservatives rolled up their sleeves and worked to advance their ideology. In my opinion they made a compromise with the moderate presidency of GWB, but they did not run off and hide or seek therapy. They faced it like adults and learned from their defeats. They were strong enough to admit that their losses were, at least in part, their own fault. They did not blame voter intelligence (knowing they would need these same voters’ support later) or engage in conspiracy theories.
Now it could be that the USA, the Democratic Party, and the progressive movement will be made stronger by those leaving. This could be viewed as a culling of the herd as the weak members voluntarily remove themselves from it and run off to Canada and elsewhere leaving more resources for the stronger ones. The strong ones who remain can now work like the conservatives did during the Nineties to advance their ideology. Although for my money it is going to take more than repackaging rejected decades- or even centuries-old social/economic ideas as "progressive."
Carl Anderson