A mild self-reproof: it's hard to remember how much worse it could have been, since it isn't. It's important to try to keep it in mind all the same.
Imagining the Alternative
It's easy to complain about the things that a given administration gets wrong; they're actual, after all, and their mistakes therefore have consequences. Still, it's helpful to think on how things would have gone wrong had the other side won, too. I feel obligated to write in opposition to the many things I disagree with; but I would have disagreed even more, I expect, had things gone the other way.
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I often frame an argument in terms of "compared to what?" It's good to be reminded of my own advice.
Yes, we are far better off than we would be with the alternative...still, it's important that the current admin receive feedback as to what they're doing wrong. Fox News is basically nothing but a cheering section. Leaders need more than that.
"Leaders need more than that."
Agreed. I'm reminded of a scene from a movie, I believe it's History of the World, pt I, where Caesar is continuously followed by someone reminding him that, "Thou art mortal." Perhaps a not-so unrealistic idea.
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