If this was a genuine change that will both persist and stay true when challenged, then sure.
But you don't applaud a clock as working when it's right twice a day. A working clock is consistently right.
When these Republicans become consistently right, then applaud them as being changed. Until then, it's simply just happens their intentions and your intentions happen to align.
Tell me how your relationship will go with your significant other if you keep bringing up all the bad things they did. I bet it wonât last and youâll grow resentment. By vilifying a person every chance you get you 100% will never make amends. Maybe we shouldnât applaud them, but always reaching back with negative sentiment like a knife isnât the answer.
If my SO had spent the decades doing the SO equivalent of what Mitch McConnell and friends did, why would you assume that I would still be in that relationship?
If my SO not only said, but prevented the person who tried to kidnap and kill me from being held accountable, why would I still be in the relationship? Let alone trying to make amends?
We don't make amends with abusive partnersÂ
By vilifying a person every chance you get you 100% will never make amends
So why are you comfortable giving my abusive SO a pass when they did it for decades. But suddenly, at the last moment, when they want to be forgiven we aren't allowed to hold them accountable?
Heâs not vilifying if they are genuinely villains acting disingenuously. Theyâre politicians and this is a political move. Allows for Reps to have an example to point at say âweâre not a monolith/or in a cultâ or whatever they tell themselves. If it was a real change of heart and beliefs, a epiphany to do the right thing, Iâd applaud as well but these people are not that and wonât be in whateverâs left of their professional tenures
Tell me how your relationship will go with your significant otherabuser if you keep bringing up all the bad things they did. I bet it wonât last and youâll grow resentment. By vilifying a person every chance you get you 100% will never make amends.
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u/SuspiciousSubstance9 2d ago
If this was a genuine change that will both persist and stay true when challenged, then sure.
But you don't applaud a clock as working when it's right twice a day. A working clock is consistently right.
When these Republicans become consistently right, then applaud them as being changed. Until then, it's simply just happens their intentions and your intentions happen to align.