re: #192 JordanRules

Well said.
I hate the “distraction” argument so much.

There was a major news day a while back, and not major in the sense that every day is now a major news day. It was a day when 2 mega stories broke. The jokes about which one was distracting from which was just the perfect way to put it.

It’s all bad. It’s all part of it. It’s all worth talking about.

Not to get too meta here, but worrying about distractions becomes a distraction in itself.

I always take the view that all we can do is simply persist, call them out on everything. While it seems overwhelming and sometimes futile, it’s hard to gauge progress when you’re inside a struggle. But the messaging on ACA worked. The messaging on the tax scam worked - even though they got it passed, the ‘giveaway to the rich’ idea has stuck.

It might seem like a pollyanna-ish approach to some, but I’m old and I lived through Watergate. For about 90% of that fight, it was fucking bleak. It seemed as though CREEP and their minions had a stranglehold on the narrative and Nixon would skate.

And then one day everybody realized that we had beaten that monolith. I refuse to abandon the belief that this current group of schmoes can also be beaten, because we beat Nixon, and he had smart people running the show.

Hoarse Whisperer’s moniker ‘Stupid Watergate’ is right on the money.