Justice Kennedy Retiring

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(06-28-2018, 09:19 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: That's the civility argument at play. When people talk about needing more civility in society, what they are really saying is "don't treat us the same way we have been treating you, that's not fair!"

I have to admit, there is a part of me that wants to see us roll around in the mud. That just causes a further deterioration of democracy, though, and I want us to become more democratic, not less. What we need to be doing is focusing on policies that benefit the people. Ground game, messaging, getting out the vote. Let the pigs play in the mud and try to play out Animal Farm, we should stay on message because we have a message that is better for the people.

I understand that. But as I said, it gets tricky to be the civil one. If the shoe is on the other foot in future years, democrats can't possibly expect the same courtesy, they can expect the exact same maneuver yet again. It would look a bit foolish to me to expect otherwise.
And to the public, there's a clear message, and it's not "one party is more civil". It's rather, look, we're winning, the democrats are losers. And in a sense, that would be true.