(October 30, 2018 at 8:26 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: One interesting tactic i have seen the right use of late whenever they try the whole "the Democrats want or believe " Democrat as an absolutist and exclusive position on whatever they are accusing you of for example
" Democrats are violent and are intolerant"
When you point out many are not and violence is not exclusive position of the Democrats and is just as at home among Republicans. You are met with accusation of red herring because apparently pointing out the absolutist and exclusiveness of the statement above is false is somehow not a counter according to them and is just a distraction despite dealing with the claim directly .
Another one i have encountered is what i like too call the sample size essentially they take a small group of radicals then conflate it to an official democrat position.
" Democrats want open borders"
Once again an absolutist and exclusive statement because many Democrats don't want open borders ( and no wanting paths to citizenship for illegal immigrants and wanting to abolish ICE does not mean open borders) and some Republicans want open borders as well so this idea it's a general Democrat position is refuted .
Politics is distortion. By most estimations, I'm on the far left of the Democratic party. (If we had a viable Socialist Party or Green Party, I'd no longer vote Democrat, anyways). But I do not support an open border policy. Very few leftists do, actually.
The problem is the current administration and its "immigrant paranoia." They want to lock the borders up tight. They want to portray the migrant population as some kind of criminals. A great many leftists oppose the efforts this administration is taking to harass the migrant population in America.
But pointing THIS out isn't going to get anyone fearful of the American left. No. In order to do THAT you must create some bullshit narrative about how Democrats endorse an open border policy. Politics is distortion.
