• lennybird@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    47
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    People who are actually Dem don’t like playing dirty. The nature of believing in things like equality and justice and so forth tends to mean you believe in telling the truth and doing things on the up & up. Pretending you’re something you’re not is anthetical to one’s upbringing. “Ends Justify Means” isn’t usually a belief held by those on the left.

    Whereas, if you’re a sociopathic grifting opportunistic dipshit, you’ll exploit this to nefarious ends.

    • Nougat@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      30
      ·
      2 days ago

      People with truly noble aims are always playing catch up to people with ignoble aims, because the former operates under a set of rules, and the latter does not.

      • njm1314@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 days ago

        Or basically any of the neoliberals that have dominated the Democratic party for the last 40 years.