Surely when an elected representative to Congress engages in a little heavy petting, vaping, videotaping, and other obnoxious behavior at a sold-out musical with children present, a few jokes are w…
“Are you going to change your party affiliation to Democrat?” a friend asked.
Human beings are groupish by nature. While one can live an atomized existence today, for much of human existence, ostracization from family and clan meant a lonely and untimely death. The need to belong is thus strongly ingrained. That’s why we virtue signal our allegiance to group norms and consider the other tribe’s misdeeds more grievous than our own. In our estimation, their actions get the magnifying glass; ours get the rose-colored filter of good intentions.
It took the 2016 election to set me straight. Watching the same people who criticized Clinton embrace Donald Trump was deeply disconcerting. His lies, they said, were mere exaggerations, theater. Lighten up. No one is perfect. Democrats have done far worse. Stop quibbling about the means, focus on ends — winning for once!
I have a single standard for behavior without respect to party and I regularly ask myself “how would I feel if the other side did what my side did?” or “if my side did what the other side just did?” It allows me to see past my loyalties.
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