tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640470443420164863.post3331999703852522471..comments2024-03-26T10:26:51.288-04:00Comments on Jim Leff's Slog: Tide is TurningJim Leffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007232702717055047noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640470443420164863.post-25148046035795339702017-02-19T13:55:58.732-05:002017-02-19T13:55:58.732-05:00The partisan thinking is so entrenched that at lea...The partisan thinking is so entrenched that at least one reader assumes I'm AGREEING that Pence would be worse than Trump. "Ugh, the Supreme Court; right!"<br /><br /><br />Here's what I wrote back:<br /><i>So you equate four years of policy you happen to dislike as equal with the prospect of four years under an autocratic madman controled by Putin?<br /><br />I look FORWARD to returning to routine political conflict, having moved beyond the spectar of thermonuclear war and devastation of American democracy.</i><br /><br /><br />The Supreme Court was liberal for decades. Too liberal, in fact, for most moderates. Conservatives gritted their teeth and lived their lives, nonetheless enjoying their citizenship, with all its privileges and advantages. If the Supreme Court goes the other way for decades, liberals can bloody well do the same. <br /><br />Democracy is not about always getting your most favorite-est result. It's about sharing the reigns of power with people with whom you disagree. A nation where one faction always gets its way (even the self-certain superior, smarter, better, juster way) is not a democracy. It's tyranny. So those who accuse Trump's base of hankering for autocracy should recognize and examine that very same impulse in themselves.<br /><br />But my point is this: if (and that's a big "if") we get out of this horrifying jam and return to being a country that can happily embroil itself with the standard political beefs, I for one will kiss the ground.Jim Leffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00007232702717055047noreply@blogger.com