Reply #80: Well, then, I guess you would have found out how tasty *my* head [View All]

was. :)

Y'know, what I find sad in all this, and in what you say, is that those of us who were so negatively affected by Clinton's policies *KNEW* what he was about, yet we still would have been sacrificed on that altar of "loyalty".

What I find truly sad in all this is that the demand of loyalty is so strong that we have lost most of our ability to empathize with each other. When people spoke up about NAFTA, etc., those who weren't affected gave all kinds of rationale and, in so many words, told those affected to STFU (as is so common here on DU), and turned their collective backs on those hurting from those policies.

When Clinton crapped on women on welfare, that was almost too easy to ignore...... women being mostly invisible anyway, and poor women much more so. Who has called for follow up studies to find what has happened to those women? Who has given it much more thought? If many are dead, does it matter?

The fact that we find it so easy to not feel and consider the pain of others is what deeply troubles me. It's more than seeing the truth about any politician, whether it be *bushwa, Clinton or Kerry. It's about US, and the layers of stone around our hearts that keeps us from empathizing with each other. Or, for that matter, even *seeing* them.

And for so many years, those who suffered the effects of his policies have been vilified for having the audacity to actually *see* it.

Yes, education helps. Even more so, is the ability to open our hearts to each other, and *hear*.

Kanary