Friday, March 07, 2008
A Proposal for the Weekend
Here is a call to my fellow Situationers, in the spirit of Supadiscomama's adieu before she travels. Be nice to one another. The candidates may be slinging mud, and it well may be naive for me to think that they would stop slinging mud for both the unity of the Democratic Party and the country. It is not, however, naive of me to think that the Situationers can be nice to one another--even if only for a weekend. And here's another thought: there are things going on in the world aside from the heart wrenching, gut stomping, knuckle clenching fight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Here's another call: let's all write about something else--at least for the weekend!
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I agree with the call but I must be reading the wrong posts. Where is all this acrimony that is spoken of?
Send me a link. :)
There is no reason to beat around the bush.
Harrogate does not sympathize with, or acquiesce to, your desire to police what we are writing about.
Nor, as made obvious from the above, does he prize being nice above being intellectually honest. Harrogate would be lying if he wrote with any tone other than the tone he has been writing with.
Intellectual honesty mandates that it be admitted, one side of this Dem debate is far more eager to unify when it is over, than the Other. Gee. Which side is that.
So please. Here's something you might try, at least over the weekend. Stop pretending that all are engaged in the same basic diovisiveness, just because the tone is kinda similar.
There is reason to be pissed off that the table is being set for more Republican Rule.
Which Will mean more Dead People, and more Economic Craziness, and more judicial draconianism.
Harrogate is not only saddened, but Angry that so many Otherwise decent Americans are willing to enable such indecency, for the sake of Identity Politics and for the Sake of Vindication.
It might feel smug to insist, the Democratic Party deserves to implode, does not deserve to be supported, if Obama doesn't get the nomination. But what is amounts to is splitting the only thing standing between the GOP and the White House. And love yourt candidate as much as you want. But both DEM candidates are far and away superior candidates, not to mention human beings, than John McCain.
What is monstrous is pretending otherwise to prove a point.
Where is Dr. Rice when we need her to broker a peace deal???
Apparently I have failed in my self-appointed role of peace broker. It seems the acrimony that Southpaw has overlooked will continue . . . And Harrogate, we once again disagree. I think you can be intellectually honest and still be gracious. Our rhetoric (and note, I did not single out anyone as I used the plural pronoun) has gotten increasingly hostile toward one another. And I do know one thing about rhetoric and it is this: the more hostile your rhetoric is the less likely you are to convince anyone, particularly those who disagree with you, of your point. As my grandmother would say, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Perhaps this is an adage that not only we at the Situation should follow but that the candidates should also follow.
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