Some people are trying to demonise them, present them as ‘the other’ in the same way that the Nazis did the Jews. And they appear to be succeeding.
It was Americans of all political persuasions who kicked his ass, not just Democrats. Some of them were Democrats, some of them were Republicans, some were Communists, and some had other political persuasions.
And that’s an interesting typo.
But you merely self reported as being a centrist. Krugman’s description can’t be expected to apply unless you self-identify as a fanatical centrist.
Then they (the Republicans) shouldn’t behave like demons and try to divide the world into themselves and “everybody else.” Which they are doing, and have been doing for some time.
That bothers me a bit. I guess I can see how people might imagine that strict left-wing policy could seem oppressive. They certainly have been depicted that way. Even moderating my views in my oldage, I find myself to the left of 90% of the country, maybe 95. But I mostly look toward the pragmatic positives and maybe miss the possible down-sides.
To me, the aggregate broad right-wing ideology, mangled and distorted as it is, follows a trajectory that converges on a sort of hybrid theocratic plutocracy. Each individual in that camp either does not see that at the endpoint or thinks it would be a good thing. So, to me, seeing the far left as comparably bad is difficult for me.
No, some people are accurately describing the things that most Republicans are currently supporting. Accurately describing things isn’t demonizing. According to the polling, most Republicans in America are currently unapologetically supporting someone who bragged multiple times about violating women’s consent, who spent years spreading a racist, evidence-free conspiracy theory, who has praised white supremacists and said many other racist things, and much, much more (including deliberately instituting a policy that separated children from parents, sometimes permanently).
Paul Ryan was the most ineffective Speaker in history, but to be fair it was rather like herding cats. His Congress got virtually nothing done. McConnell is a piece of shit. He denied Obama the opportunity to make a Supreme Court picked and bragged about it. He passed Obamacare repeals dozens of times knowing they will be vetoed, but now refuses to allow a vote on anything that Herr Donald will not sign.
Because he’s dead now. He wasn’t “all that”. It’s propaganda.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Hate speech being a thing against religions makes as much sense as hate speech being a thing against other symbols of ideology such as party affiliation.
The soviets weren’t Democrats.
Let’s assume for a moment that I’m angry enough to want to shoot one of the incredibly evil shitheads running our country.
Y’know what it’d take for me to not want to do that any more?
For them to stop espousing the shitty, dangerous, pathological drivel they espouse. Either do the right thing in power, or abdicate power. Y’know, kind of like the Nazis.
That’s it! It’s that easy! Because my grievance with them boils down entirely to “you are hurting me and people dear to me with your shitty policies”. If they stop doing that… Problem solved. The comparison to the persecution of the jews is insane. The far more reasonable comparison is, ironically, to the allied “persecution” of the Nazis!
It is NOT wrong to characterize demonic behavior as likely being rooted in demonic traits.
I disagree. By and large, people don’t choose their religion. Their parents bring them up in their faith. Sure, they may convert but most folks believe what their parents did. It’s a bit more of a choice than ethnicity or gender, but for the most part their religion was imposed on them. Choosing to be a Republican means you choose bigotry, you choose intolerance, you choose not helping your fellow man, you choose to ignore science. For those choices, you can and should be rightfully condemned.
Plus, I don’t think converting to Christianity saved Jews from the camps, did it? And of course, the Roma/Gypsies, homosexuals and others - what were they supposed to do?
Wendell Wilke was running against FDR in '40. How would the events have transpired with him in office? I mean, FDR went against opposition to implement the oil embargo that provoked Japan to attack. Would Wilke have done that? I suspect not.
Only for a very brief time (IF you believe it) “when William F. Buckley tried to kick the shit stains, lunatics, future Deplorables, Birchers and future Trumpies OUT of the conservative movement”.
But that is revisionist bullshit TOO.
So, NEVER.
Ummm, the GOP does need to go. Just like the Whigs, the Know Nothings, the Bullmoose, the Jeffersonians, etc.
They have become the Party of Trump, the Party of Putin, the Party of Treason.
They need to be dissolved.
As for Reagan, well he IS dead. Unless he got better.
And he was NOT that great. Iran Contra, trickle down, ignoring the AIDS epidemic, ignored the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein and supplied him, supplied arms to both sides of the Iran-Iraq war, armed and supported the Mujahideen rebels in Afghanistan (creating Al Queda), supported the racist apartheid government in South Africa, supported Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, etc.
In fact, he really sucked.
“People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are. But it’s not true! People are still assholes, they’re just dead assholes!” – Lemmy
*Because *of all those things. He was corrupt & traitorous to the nation, he hurt people especially the poor, non-whites, homosexuals & women, he promoted plutocracy, bigotry and religious fanaticism; those are what make somebody a good Republican.
And finding wrong is never an excuse to do wrong.