(October 10, 2017 at 5:46 pm)Khemikal Wrote:Please stop ignoring points and parroting about left and right. I'm not talking about left or right, I'm talking about the word for a particular flavor of dogma.(October 10, 2017 at 5:42 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Dogma of the right has a different term, but it amounts to much the same thing. I think "right-wing nutjob" works, or "the Party of Stupid" if you want to talk about the political party.It really doesn't. The right and left are defined by their opposition, not because they're the same or amount to the same.
Quote:Your first post in this OP, and the resounding number of kudos for it, was completely irrelevant, completely meant to isolate Neo socially without addressing his claim. And that's what I mean by bearing torches.Quote:Mostly right-wing nutjobs, if you are being literal in reference to Charlottesville. But in a virtual sense, I'd say there's no shortage of torches right here, right now.There's an obvious shortage here. We have a deeply bigoted potus, and our racists are doing such a good job that their normalizing propaganda has reached you all the way over there. We've got alt right shitweasels like Neo re-defining themselves as the center right even as they predictably rail against the actual (and actually disappointing) center right of american politics...the Hillarys and Obamas and, to be blunt, the entirety of the democratic establishment.
Quote:They're doing very well, and because of this my country suffers. You know me, lol, can you imagine a fresher hell for me than the shittification of Murica, or the covert exportation of our worst elements -as- americana?
I totally agree. America right now looks like a steaming pile of shit. And it does seem to me that the Republicans collectively shit their pants over having a black president, resisted almost everything he did in unprecedented fashion because he was black, and elected a fucking moron because he's not afraid to be ignorant. Unfortunately, the Democrats put up a lizard for president rather than a likable human being, and the DNC's unwillingness to choose a suitable candidate is probably even more responsible for us being burdened with the first Orangutan president than anything the Republicans did.
But none of these means there aren't new kinds of ignorance growing, and that much of it is growing out of ideas about racism, gender issues, and so-on.