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Sadly, for most people this seems to be the space they focus on most and have the mistaken belief political solutions should be the primary approach.
I've been re-examining my priors recently and it has me remembering things I had forgotten. Modernity and post-modernity has blinded us. We can't go back but we should look back and see what we have lost. There are always tradeoffs.
Modernity and post-modernity
Politics are older than the written word. Things really go off the rails when good people abdicate over these transcendent virtue signals.
Dang didn't know that when someone died, we should just shit all over them because they believed in something I didn't. For better or worse, he stood for what he stood for, and he didn't waver. Look at today's politicians from both parties flip-flopping. This guy didn't do that. Not to mention, he had his limits in how far progressives should push things, and that is what we saw in the interview a couple of weeks ago.
Plus, I will give someone credit where it is due, and that is being publicly gay in Washington, DC, in the 1980's was no easy feat.
Calling someone a Bolshevik isn't shitting on someone to other Bolsheviks, its the highest complement, actually.
Being consistent is what put him in a different class than the current crop. 'More respectable' is in regards to that specifically. May as well glaze Lenin while you're at it though.
he had his limits in how far progressives should push things
Pushing things down a slippery slope then abdicating responsibility when they go off the cliff isn't commendable.
being publicly gay in Washington, DC
Should never have entered public discussion at all, slippery slope. No shortage of gays on the right that understand people simple minding their own businesses and not drawing attention to it was the right trajectory. Bessent could have been Tres Sec under Reagan and no one would have given a shit because he doesn't make a spectacle of it.
Glazing a Bolshevik revolutionary like this is a great example of how weak and pathetic most Republicans are and lose to absolute clown opposition.
Was he a more respectable foe than the current crop? Sure but the bar isn't that high.