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will have to answer for it for the rest of their lives. While I'm willing to accept a GENUINE mea culpa by someone who initially supported and even voted for it but eventually saw the error of their ways and now deeply regrets it--and has offered a detailed and sincere-sounding enough articulation of this to make it believable--this is not one of those things that you can just brush off by saying "Oops, I guess I was wrong on that one, sorry!". These people have to either take back and adequately explain and apologize for their support of this and similar stains on our society, or else forever be condemned and held accountable for it.
And I absolutely AM condoning a policy of what the Broderite Villagers disparagingly call a "witch hunt" and "demonization" of high-level politicians and other public figures, be it in government, academia or the media, because these people are, as I see it, symbolically at least, demonic and witch-like. What part of "these people supported and voted for evil" do these dimwits not understand, or disagree with? Or do they themselves support such policies (which, of course, many did, and probably still do), and if so, why don't they have the guts to just say so?
This is also, I believe, part of why Hillary Clinton lost the nomination--and deservedly so--and why I didn't support her bid for the Democratic nomination (although I would have voted for her in the general, in a lesser of two evils at a time when we just can't afford the greater of those evil way), and don't support her bid for Secretary of State (and, frankly, cannot fathom why Obama offered it to her unless he knew from the start that she'd never be able to accept it, and it was a fake-out from the start). Our political, policy and opinion leaders have to be held to standards, and if they fail them, they must pay a price, and not be rewarded for it.
Massive pressure will be applied to Obama to just sweep this all under the carpet in the spirit of "bipartisanship" and "just moving on"--in many if not most instances by the very people in whose interest it is to not hold the people responsible for such moral atrocities accountable for them--i.e. themselves, and their friends and allies. I sincerely hope that he resists such pressure. It's not just a matter of doing what's morally right, but about doing what's practically right, as these people do not deserve to be entrusted with the faith that the public might still have in them. They're not fit to lead, and the public has a right, and need, to find out why.
Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
