@Finn dAbuzz,
Quote: There is nothing inherently wrong with immediately responding with compassion to the plight of suffering human beings. It should be said though that a great many of these "everyday" Americans are quite happy to use their compassion as a tribal cudgel.
Good stuff, Finn. Of course there are enough tribal cudgels to go around — all fun and games, then someone gets his head bashed in — but the brutal irony of weaponized compassion hasn't gone by unnoticed. If the left/liberal/progressive chunk of the electorate wants to remain relevant, and possibly even start winning at the ballot box, it's got to find its way out of the current PC straitjacket. "Politically correct" exists in right-wing culture as well but the right has fewer tribes — "Guns, Flag, and God" would probably net eighty per cent of the conservatives; figure out a clever way to get "Profits" and maybe "Ayn Rand" in there and you'd get the rest. Anyway, it will be interesting to see if schisms form in the Republicans' unified government
