There's nothing wrong with saying "I've fallen in love with this person. Please reassign me to a role where this won't be a conflict."

Does it come at a career cost? Maybe it does. But a lot of ethical choices do. That's why we admire people willing to make them.

In fact, you're dancing awfully close to an accusation of violating the law in many cases if you *don't* do this.

*sympathy for

I understand that thats "not democracy" per se, but, I feel like it plays well with idea of how our Republic is supposed to work.

vote and losing without it, I choose losing. I'd appreciate it if you'd not vote for me."

I agree that parties have to be "big tents" to be a majority. My assertion is that being a majority is not a goal worthy of allowing certain types of radicals or the corrupt into the tent. Like to the point of actively saying for example "Mr. Duke, if the choice is winning with you and your ilk's

Eh... only if his new wife also 'acted' in porn

Grr... also it just hit me... I misspelled 'Bigot' at every opportunity in this thread... you'll hafta forgive me.

The more I think about it, the more I think there are 3 sides in the R party.
1. Authoritarian Biggots - winning
2. Vichy Cowards - losing majority
3. Principled Cons - losing minority

recompense for their cowardly behavior *if* we come out the other side of this thing with the Republic in tact.

on this site, many replying to the post that you quoted, in fact, wish to say "everyone on 'that side' is the same (ie Nazis)" and thats just not true. I do, however, believe they are, at best, Vichy in nature. So, I will argue that they not be defined as Nazi, but also that there is some sort of

have absolutely become both), while still understanding that it is incorrect and unfair to say "they're all the same". They're not. However, they also didn't stand against the encroaching authoritarian and biggotted threat in a way that mattered, because of fear of "the left". So, my point is, many

winners) together as Nazis. Now, *I left* the party in 2018-2019 (iirc) when it became apparent to me that the fight couldn't be won internally. I also am very disappointed by many of my friends and family who I know are *not* biggots and authoritarians (to be clear, some I used to call friends

I think perhaps I was unclear. *I* am on this site. *I* am still what used to be called a conservative. I agree with you, being (depending on the definition being used) conservative is not inherently immoral. My point is that, many on this site wish to lump both sides of the current fight(losers and