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Member of Congress Among 5 Reportedly Shot at Baseball Field
RE: Member of Congress Among 5 Reportedly Shot at Baseball Field
(June 17, 2017 at 10:09 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(June 16, 2017 at 3:26 pm)wallym Wrote: I'm not getting where the idea I'm sympathetic to the far right is coming from.  I called them the loonie wing, and said I don't like them.  

What I've noticed, is that normal people.  College educated well-to-do white liberals with families and steady jobs and friendly personalities, when they start talking politics are now pretty over the top.  Trump is Hitler.  Die Scum Die!   They're supposed to be the nice people.  The humanists and progressives and such.  I'm just anecdotally seeing a shift.  Could just be a fluke.

This shift is imaginary. Do you not remember the accusations of Obama's gov't being NaZi, "death panels", our current President questioning Obama's legitimacy in office?

The corrosion in civility threatens to under the basis of our country. Both sides partake of vapid yet ugly rhetoric. Both sides are part of the deeper problem.

The right wing of the republican party has and always will talk bullshit like Nazi 'death panels.'  The Sarah Palin wing.  The Tea Party/Freedom Caucus/Religious crazies.  But the moderate wing, people who like Mitt Romney and the others of his kind that the far right accuses of not really being republicans, aren't calling anyone Nazi's.  We don't think Obama was Kenyan, Muslim, or any of those things.  

We used to have counterparts.  But the people I expect to be reasonable democrats has shifted way left into the crazy rhetoric area.  The people who I'd think would have a civil conversation while the wings call eachother Nazi's are now in the calling people Nazi's business.


Too reiterate my original point. I don't think the rhetoric has changed. I think that a lot of people who I'd expect to be too smart to buy into the rhetoric are now engaging in it when they weren't previously.
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RE: Member of Congress Among 5 Reportedly Shot at Baseball Field - by henryp - June 17, 2017 at 11:47 am

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