Lowering the bar
Pascal has a post up in which he talks about the lowering of the bar. Politics, he reminds us, have become so malignant that the parties have deteriorated (as demonstrated in the Dem debates tonight) that all they have to offer us is “We’re not them”.
Let’s ask for more. Let’s demand more than just the lowest common denominator. Let’s raise the bar. How do we do it? I don’t know. I’m trying to do it by raising the bar for my child; by teaching her not to surrender to the lowest common denominator.
Everyone has demands, and thus we get pols who deliver to the lowest common denominator.
Thus it is not surprising that making demands — hollering louder and louder — is the basic approach of infants and the basic tool of Democrats and RINOs.
In my search for what has to be done, the one demand that keeps coming back to haunt me is “what more must I do?”