Joe GOP’s Principles of Convenience

Modern political debating has become the ultimate hamster wheel. Around and around we go without accomplishing anything. There are several reasons for it. Most often, a debate among friends, colleagues, and the social media world of “friends” we all have devolves into a never-ending game of whataboutism. Other times, there are changing goal posts. A lack of perspective, context, and facts are often employed as well to justify one’s position. Politicians use this trick all the time, choosing to isolate an incident or a figure in order to pretend they are correct. Two recent examples come to…