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12355.bsky.social @12355.bsky.social

This is the always and forever argument about half-loaves and blue no matter who. You feel brave and stern parroting it. A grown up. The issue has never been purity. I am absolutely ok if Newsom’s views don’t align fully or even mostly with mine.

aug 17, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0

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12355.bsky.social @12355.bsky.social

What I’m not ok with, is political hacks. People who abandon politically inconvenient positions and then later repudiate them. People who prevaricate about their beliefs in order to keep votes. And the reason I’m not ok with it, is not morality or purity. It’s because voters despise inauthenticity

aug 17, 2025, 3:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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12355.bsky.social @12355.bsky.social

Time and again we elect leaders who we -know- are pretending to believe something they don’t in order to shore up political support. And that kind of politics works well on the small stage, sure. But in the big leagues it has failed, time and time again. Voters smell it, and are disgusted by it

aug 17, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view