re: #168 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

If the IRS decided not to enforce some tax rule because, say, they are understaffed and don’t want to spend an entire staff-year running down some esoteric violation, does that mean the IRS should not actually enforce tax laws in the future if they are better staffed?

It’s one thing to jump up and down and declare we are a nation of laws (as is done when trying to pin down Trump, for example), but then it is ok to skip some law because, well, the other guy does it?

I have no fondness for the GOP, Ohio or otherwise.

But sloppiness on the part of any party, in this case the DNC, is not something to keep doing.

Here is what minorities know: they have to be extra careful in following laws because they will be scrutinized more closely by the society (and the enforcement arms.)

I think the DNC does not really, really understand that.

I think the DNC is lazy, arising from too much entitlement. It’s not just this issue (of ignoring state laws/rules) but on several issues.

The entire abortion thing blew up because elected officials didn’t want to do the work (politically risky work) of encoding abortion rights into laws, instead relying on a 1970’s SCOTUS ruling.

Political parties fail when they get too big, too entrenched in the status quo.

Again—the difference here is that the SOS specifically granted an accommodation for this exact scenario for the GOP in the past. This isn’t “prosecutorial discretion”. It’s unequal, arbitrary enforcement of the law.