re: #254 goddamnedfrank

Without taking this analogy too far I’m reminded of Gollum and Smeagol. I think what we saw was a struggle towards expressing the version of himself he very much wanted to be, but that addition to party never allowed him to actually become.

I honestly don’t know. In a way, I find it sad since I did see DF show empathy and sympathy when a member of the community lost a loved one, was ill, and I’m sure if he knows of CL’s passing, it probably saddened him but what struck me about DF even before he left and started to show his true colors is I just never saw any empathy to people he didn’t know. When him and I would have our battles about Cold War policy, he never once put himself in the shoes of a Chilean dissident who would have been persecuted by our installed, Pinchoet, an Iranian done the same by the Shah, etc. It was always the Ends Justify the Means with him. He never could picture himself in the shoes of anyone other than the Cook County white male Republican that he is.