(June 16, 2017 at 2:44 pm)Shell B Wrote:(June 16, 2017 at 1:40 pm)wallym Wrote: I think a point you inadvertently hit on, is that it is definitely "You" now. On the right, we have the loonie wing that likes Beck, Jones, and Limbaugh, and if Harry Reid died, they'd all dance a little jig on air, and their followers would do the same. But we also have the Romney Wing on this side, and we aren't cheering for anybody to die. We don't particularly like the Jones/Beck/Limbaugh group, and they don't particularly like us.
On the left, it was my impression that it used to be the same. There are seemingly unstable people like yourself who will rant and rave and super cleverly add cunt and tard as suffixes to various words. But at the same time, there were plenty of people who were reasonable, and mostly interested in solving the same problems the Romney wing was trying to solve, but from a more government/progressive perspective.
But the reasonable people on the left seem to have wandered off. People who have no excuses for being batshit insane, are now cheering when people die. Oh, some republican got shot? Fuck 'em! Scalia died? Rot in hell. That's fine and expected from you. But there needs to be a group to counterbalance your dopiness, or things are going to get out of hand.
Yeah, reality isn't jiving with your picture of a far right that's not as bad as the far left. There are plenty of groups to counterbalance the crazy far left. The problem is, both sides are fucking the rest of us over. Why does no one notice the crazy conservatives in here all of a sudden?
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.
