Are you seriously making a slippery slope argument that if some politicians were held accountable for wrongdoing, we'd have to do so for all of them?
Yes please!
Or did I badly misread you?
Either that or he's implying that some of the politicians you or I might like would be among those revealed to be unethical/treasonous/etc. Which brings us back to the same response--yes, please hold them accountable! I'd love to know if I'm supporting a terrible person, so I can stop.
My read of the Red Scare era (McCarthy) is that while what we want is accountability, what we get is a low-trust environment in which both good and bad people are thrown in to the shredder, to the benefit of mostly bad people who hold the fear cannons.
Be careful what you wish for.
Are you seriously making a slippery slope argument that if some politicians were held accountable for wrongdoing, we'd have to do so for all of them?
Yes please!
Or did I badly misread you?
Either that or he's implying that some of the politicians you or I might like would be among those revealed to be unethical/treasonous/etc. Which brings us back to the same response--yes, please hold them accountable! I'd love to know if I'm supporting a terrible person, so I can stop.
My read of the Red Scare era (McCarthy) is that while what we want is accountability, what we get is a low-trust environment in which both good and bad people are thrown in to the shredder, to the benefit of mostly bad people who hold the fear cannons.