Once a prominent backer of the leftwing senator Bernie Sanders, on Thursday she was greeted by far-right activists with a standing ovation and a group of supporters brandishing gold letters that spelled T-R-U-M-P. [More]
Really? There was a heartfelt recantation, along with apologies and pledges?
Or is it just Trump supporters go wild if you tell them what they want to hear?
[Via bondmen]
People sometimes do get a “road to Damascus” moment where they see the error of their ways and turn their life around.
Mike Vanderboegh, once active in the SDS, is only one example.
We should be willing to accept people who truly change sides due to a change in strongly held principles.
But we also need to keep in mind a Greek named Theramenes who earned the nickname “buskin”, as like the shoe which could be comfortably worn on either foot, he was perfectly comfortable fighting on either side in the Peloponnesian War, apparently depending on which side appeared to be winning.
https://anastrophe.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/perseus/citequery3.pl?dbname=GreekNov21&getid=1&query=Xen.%20Hell.%202.3.27