Member of Congress Among 5 Reportedly Shot at Baseball Field

[henryp]

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.

There are nowadays moderate left-of-center politicians as well, who engage in civil discourse and attempt to construct compromises. I'm not sure why your apparent blind spot seems to cover them so precisely, but it rather impugns your opinion as being borne of bias, to me.

Sure, there are moderate politicians.  They know the rhetoric is all a part of the game.  I'm sure a few of them drink their own kool-aid, but for the most part, they know it's just a tool they hand out to the masses to try and win elections.  That's why W, who was 100% a racist war criminal is somehow able to be friends with Obama a Kenyan who hates america and vice versa. 

Maybe there are some moderates, and I'm just overlooking them.  Maybe they just keep quiet, because if they tell people like Khemikal that Trump isn't like Hitler in any meaningful way, people like Khem will call them a Nazi sympathizer and socially ostracize them, and it's not worth the hassle?