RE: Hypocrisy much?
January 29, 2019 at 12:46 am
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2019 at 12:51 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 28, 2019 at 7:42 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: And for the record, my "soured with the left" part was actually talking about me, and specifically referring to not the ideals of the left (which I still consider, at my most idealistic, something to aspire to, and, at my most cynical, the lesser of two evils [the greater of which being the sort of horseshit that Trump is pandering to]), but the, as you put it, illiberal people who seem to have overrun it (at least on social media networks).
A number of which appear to have been bots and trolls, a good portion of the remainder is sub farming, and then we strike out the teens just becoming politically or socially aware..and finally any lingering instance of deceptive/lazy opinion or reporting.
It's become very difficult to determine the extent to which illiberalism is actually growing on the left. The idea, itself, is very much a product of things like the heritage foundation even if it is. I soured on the left more for the failures of the radical wing commonly described as the illiberal set, than because they were in any neatly definable way illiberal.
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