Letters to the Editor
BryanS
Published Letters: 365 Editor's Choice: 1
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Please stop
[Read the article: Committee reaches decision on Florida]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I understand what those of you who are attempting to engage ModerationInAll are trying to do, but please stop wasting your time. Yes, there is a healing process that needs to begin, and yes, that's going to involve some tongue-biting and compromising. But you can't compromise with someone who refuses to meet you anywhere between your positions. You can't reason with someone who refuses to be reasonable. And you can't have a discussion with someone who's so emotional that they refuse to recognize how destructive their behavior is. This is a woman who voted Democratic in 11 straight presidential elections, and she just made a donation to John McCain's campaign, because her preferred candidate lost to an opponent who shares 95 percent of the same policies as the candidate she backed.
It's a painful thing to have to admit, but we're going to lose some of these voters to McCain, or just lose their votes because they're going to sit at home on Election Day, or write in Hillary's name, or whatever. There's no appeasing them, because the only thing that they want is for Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic nominee for president, and that is not going to happen. And so they will holler and threaten and scream and hold their breath until they turn blue and generally engage in all manner of behavior identical to a five-year old who's just been told that he can't have the puppy that he just saw in the pet store window.
Some five-year olds will calm down if you explain to them that maybe they can have the puppy next year, or that there's no room in the house for a dog, but maybe they can have a cat instead. But if that child continues to throw a tantrum, cursing and biting and wailing uncontrollably, then the only thing you can do is ignore this behavior and hope that, sooner or later, they will learn that this is not how adults behave. Giving them the attention that they're acting out for only reinforces bad behavior and does no one any good in the long run.