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That's not the point. While we should hold everyone involved - even peripherally - responsible, it's not appropriate or productive to compare Obama to Bush. W
by dylangs1030 13y ago
That's not the point.
While we should hold everyone involved - even peripherally - responsible, it's not appropriate or productive to compare Obama to Bush.
We need to frame the objection as, "This is wrong!" not, "This is worse than/just like $OTHER_PERSON." It's implicitly partisan.
- philwelch 13y agoIt's perfectly appropriate to compare them, as there is no longer anything left to contrast between the two.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoAppropriate? Maybe. Productive? Not really.
- unclebucknasty 13y agoIf, no matter who we "elect", we get the same policies, then I do think it's productive to highlight this via comparing and contrasting the parties/representatives. This shows very strong common threads running through two parties which are presented to us as drastically different. That, in turn, exposes the fact that there is another "power" that completely supercedes our democratic process and the very notion that we actually have a representative form of government. Now, what we do with that information is another story. Talk raises awareness, but it's not enough to just talk about it. There needs to be a viable third party and protests aimed solely and specifically at reform such as removing the money from politics, term limits, closing the revolving door between industry and government, etc.