Leftists tearings 2016

[Opoponax]

Yup, definitely ended up being a good year. Trump beat Hillary. Republicans are the majority in both houses of Congress, and Ohio State beat Michigan 30-27. Yup, ended up being a good year...except for all the crying from the crazy left.

This^ is the level of discourse among most conservatives. 

Information hating, fact despising, non-intellectuals. 

There used to be actual intellectual conservatives. You might not have agreed with them, but they could make good arguments for a lot of issues. Now there's Trump, who's legitimized name calling and made it not just okay, but desirable to be an utter ignoramus. 

Trump's gonna make America great again? 

How? 

Fuck if anyone knows. And what's even worse, fuck if his followers care. It's a goddamn tantrum writ large.

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Jesster
I always love it when I hear this argument. It's ignoring the fact that most people are like this regardless of political leanings. But hey, it's far more fun to point fingers.

Yes and no. When it comes to politics, people are generally not very open-minded, regardless of their ideology. I'm sure there are studies confirming this, but I don't have the time to do the research. However, there is the idea among modern American liberals that certain ideas should be instantly shut down. For example, there has been a prevailing liberal rhetoric that any criticism against the religion of Islam or the practices of Muslim-majority countries is "Islamophobic," even when the criticism has merit. For that reason, "political correctness" is preventing a legitimate dialogue about Islam from forming. Another example could be the idea that racism only exists when white people do it, which ties into the concept of "white privilege," which claims that only minorities have the right to have opinions on certain social and cultural issues. These are regressive ideals and they go against the roots of true liberalism.

Very true. The problem is that we have to put up with that bullshit because the GOP is so many orders of magnitude worse. I can put up with the irritant of political correctness because at the end of the day it makes absolutely no difference in my life good or bad. So that's the tradeoff: a few pet social annoyances or TRUMP.