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  • Thats my issue with politics. Every issue is bait, and everybody plays with the issues.

    Meanwhile, the outcomes affect real people.

    And not just THIS issue. This is every issue. It’s all just a series of “how can I frame this to benefit me…”

    And that’s all politics has ever been. Even back in the slavery days. People praise Lincoln for ending slavery. People like to remember him as being snti-slavery. He wasn’t. He was trying to work both sides, and it happened to benefit him to end slavery.

    Just the same today with domens health/abortions, the economy, education, and any other big issue you can think of. If it benefits a politician to take a side, they will. The right thing to do would be to allow Ukraine to use our best weapons, and strike deep within russia. But that doesn’t benefit America to end the war. Instead, it benefits America to drain russia for generations of all military, vehicles, equipment, and ability to recover. It benefits America to send a message to China to not fuck around.

    What benefits America and what is the right thing to do are rarely the same.