Come back, we won’t hit you anymore, we love you baby. Please come back.
Sorry, it’s a classic case of an abusive relationship.
Honest... I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts! IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!
Oh, Jake... Jake, honey...
“Come back, we won’t hit you anymore, we love you baby. Please come back.”
You nailed it.
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“Come back, we won’t hit you anymore, we love you baby. Please come back.”
Even Harley Quinn dumped the Joker she loved. Sometime an abusive relationship needs to be ended. Cut off like a piece of diseased cancer. We do not need to be part of a perpetual second party to make it look like we live in a democracy. The Mask is off. The Joke has been on us. Time for a fresh start with out the Vichy Get along GOP.
Exactly. While growing up, I had a front row seat to this type of crap. A clean break is needed....never look back.
“Come back, we won’t hit you anymore, we love you baby. Please come back.”
It’s a great analogy - up to a point.
The problem I have with that analogy is that in the case of an abusive spouse, it is only the spouses guilty of abuse who should be denied another chance and who deserve not to be believed.
Should all spouses who happen to be male be presumed guilty of abuse? Of course not.
The same is true with any group - even Republicans - we simply need to be better at judging individual politicians. Period.
To look at this problem another way, let’s say we never trusted another Republican again... would that protect us from corrupt and unaccountable politicians? Of course it wouldn’t.
Whatever Trump names his new party, there is nothing keeping corrupt and unaccountable politicians from calling themselves that - the name of the party makes zero difference.
The answer is not to refuse to vote Republican - the answer is to stop voting for corrupt and unaccountable politicians simply because they call themselves Republicans.
I do think it is time to stop voting straight party tickets. We should candidates earn our vote - we shouldn’t let them take our vote for granted - just leave that spot blank if the candidate did not earn it.
Even if it means no Republican “coattails” for a while...
Even if it means Democrat majorities in the legislature for a while...
After a while Republican candidates will see that if they want our vote they need to earn it every single time.
We shouldn’t hold our noses and vote for them just because they are Republicans. But we also shouldn’t withhold our votes just because they are Republican.