GROWTH AND CHANGE
Candidates and pundits are fond of criticizing a candidate for changing positions, especially on hot-button issues. That's understandable. We and they have good reason to suspect opportunism.
We seem even harder on someone whose positions move to the left. During an election, that's equally understandable. We've been burned before.
But the blanket assumption that all change of political or social views is opportunistic is counterproductive at best.
If one was a segregationist in younger years, cannot one see the evil in that as one matures? If one was anti-choice, can one never be pro-choice? Do we have to lock people in the closets of their past?
What if it's real growth? Is it wise to delegitimize any public figure or politician who exhibits personal growth? We need those people!
We'd be better off if we learn to distinguish the poseurs from the evolved.
Clark seems to be the one this time around getting heat for changing his mind--moving left--and Dean's coming in second. Which are they?
As cynical as I am about our electoral process, I want to give them both the benefit of the doubt. Anyone who moves left in this cultural climate deserves that.
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