I'm not that upset by hypocrisy. That is to say the sliding scale I have excuses quite alot.
I for example believe the airplane should be boarded back to front. However; I use every trick in the book to get on first regardless of where I'm sitting despite knowing sometimes it's not helpful to me.
Political hypocrisy is often dismissed and those who get worked up about it get nothing for their outrage. Republicans in power always spend like drunken sailor socialist but cry how Democrats are going to put us all into debt.
What bothers me is people with unrealistic political views pointing out the difference between goals and achievements as hypocrisy. People saying the ACA is a failure because it's not single payer. I had this discussion with my partners friend, an urban non categorizable independent bla bla socialist, who ignored the political reality that single payer wouldn't have passed. He doesn't support the Democrats or vote at all because they're hypocrites for saying they want single payer and then stopping at the ACA.
I don't think hypocrisy is that bad, I don't think messy reasoning is that bad, I think we all have to recognize were human and laugh at ourselves. Everything else is politics.
