On Double-Standards

More and more, I see an increasing double-standard in the media between Progressive and Regressive rhetoric and behavior.  

Where Progressives must rely on factual evidence of the highest standards, Regressives can literally make stuff up.  Behavior that is accepted as business-as-usual in Regressive circles gets Progressive pundits sacked.

Again and again and again, we see the Regressive Camp get all up in arms over the President doing the exact same thing that their own people do -- and yet still insist that it's OK, even virtuous for Regressives to do what they condemn the President for doing.  

We see it when they refuse to allow religious groups other than Christian Domionists to do the exact same things that they insist on doing in the name of Christianity.  We see it again and again and again, and yet Progressives are continually blasted, harassed, punished and attacked for calling it out.  Progressives are constantly held to a higher standard while Regressives are held to practically none.

As Nelson Mandela realized, there comes a time when holding to the higher standard fails to achieve the goals we fight for.  He also realized that there comes a time when the higher standard must be held to.  Distinguishing between the two is the hard part.

For me, this double-standard only reinforces my assertion that lies and propaganda are the only weapons left to the Regressives -- who consistently lack any substantial evidence to back up their outlandish claims and demands for absolute control over our nation.  The evidence that we've seen for the past 30 years is that their world is a utopia only for rich white christian theocrat men and a nightmare for the rest of us.  

I urge everyone to think critically about the direction of our nation -- to use our inborn ability to reason to determine what is empirically proven to work to bring our nation back from the brink.  In order to do this, we have to agree on a single standard for all rhetoric -- and punish severely those who insist on breaking that standard.