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(04-01-2021, 12:18 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I completely agree, and over all I don't mind Obama's tenure as POTUS, despite some fundamental differences of opinion.  But when the response is to a quote from Truman about politicians being worth far more when they leave office then when they entered it, citing Trump does not excuse Obama, at least as far as the quote is concerned.  Degree wasn't an issue in the quote, so it wasn't in my comparison.  Hyper partisan people need to be reminded of their hypocrisies, especially when they think they're the ones springing the trap.

Well, the quote said "crook", and the meme was posted by someone not known to be overly critical of Trump, so I might get why the response was as it was, but whatever... the important thing to me is this, I feel your counter plays in the hand of the "everyone is bad anyway" defense mechanism of Trump (or other bad actors). - Left and right, liberal or conservative, they are all partisan, biased actors, the politicians are all crooks, everything and everyone is awful and always will be awful, it's all the same and so there's no reason to take issue with Trump or thrive for anything better than Trump - and every critizism is hypocritical in its nature anyways.

Just to clarify, I don't say that is your intention at all: I just say that your take fuels those arguments and I consider them more troubling than allegedly uber-partisan takes. Might be worth a thought - or not.