Reply #77: Just more "ends justifies means" thinking, imho. [View All]

[TahitiNut]

The supreme delusion that there are any 'ends' other than the 'means' so-rationalized infects many, particularly partisans. If corruption were self-diagnosable, I doubt it'd be called corruption. Partisanship, imho, is such a corruption - a delusion that principles and values can be neatly converted into mere chips in a political poker game and matters of conscience subordinated to the faux virtue called 'loyalty.' Hear me well: loyalty is no virtue. When integrity, honor, courage, and compassion - true virtues - are subordinated to the hypocrisies of partisanship, that partisanship becomes truly and profoundly blind. (I merely need point to the history of the GOP to prove that point.)