For me personally, I’m not really interested in anyone’s private life. BUT, the times I do consider it firmly coming into play is when anyone (Democrat or Republican) staunchly proclaims something (PRO CHOICE! PRO CAPITOL PUNISHMENT! PRO FUZZY BUNNIES!) and then behaves in direct opposition. It’s not so much that I care they hold opposing viewpoints, it’s that they hypocritically rail against an action that they’ve now under taken. So it’s fine if you want to tell the world it’s better to leave all reproductive rights up to the woman. However, don’t you think it’s fair game to judged if you then insist that your daughter have her unwanted pregnancy?
Also, in conjunction to why some are demonized and others not, I don’t always think it has to do with whether or not said individual has been deified. Instead, I feel that perhaps sometimes, it’s because that person never ‘connected’ (for lack of a better word) with the public anyway. For example, if Quayle had gotten caught out in some sort of sex scandal, it might’ve been surmised that was the reason for sinking his career aspirations. Instead, and more rightly in my humble opinion, it was because he was perceived as dumb as a box of hammers.
Heh. I like Liberal and delight in his enlightenment this election season, but judging from past performance, it isn’t YOU that he’s trying to make the thread about when it comes to religion.
True. And I apologize BrainGlutton for answering the non-portion of your question. So in catching up, the real reason that I think that happens when someone does connect but is demonized are multiple (and wordy)…
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[li]A general aversion of going with the flow or the most popular choice. You see this sort of backlash a lot with blockbuster movies and music.[/li][li]As a threat, but not necessarily in a negative sense. Something someone doesn’t understand / has no experience with / is the opposite of their own choices / etc., could all mean a pushing away and then translates further to a castigation because of those things. [/li][li]A way to difuse one’s own fears or hatreds. In my own life (when I was younger) I’ve dealt a bit with having ‘trash talk’ used as a weapon and almost every time it was because either party was afraid (say, that they worried about losing a game and by badmouthing, the other would thus rattle their opponent, causing worse play and a possible victory for your team) or hate-filled (like with a bully that’s finally getting their comeuppance – you can get pretty spittle-flying happy that they are being served their due. Afterwards, this means you write the history books and of course, all the bad guys are now Bad Guys !1!![/li][/ul]
To just name a few. Heh. At least, those are some of my opinions and no, it still doesn’t help me understand very well. I only get glimpses of grasping this kind of stuff, even when confronted out right. I believe I’ll never fully grok any of it.
Clinton was investigated by the “special prosecutor” for his entire time. The repubs do not play nice. They will not sit back idly while he governs. They will assail him everyday. It is not the same old game. They jump a few levels .
I have a vague recollection of this story being mentioned on “The McLaughlin Group” with the consensus being that it had been fully investigated and no evidence found to support it.
Gosh! I’m so sorry everyone. I have no idea how I did that. I could’ve sworn that I’d simply been haning out on the first page of Great Debates, but apparently that wasn’t the case.
It’s the ONLY way the right knows how to win. They are the same crappy folk who agreed with slavery because it’s the way they were taught by their fathers, they agree with guns and wars cos that’s what their fathers did.
They must make their opponent into the “Devil” cos then they can justify committing heinous acts against him cos they are then assured of a heavenly existence - in this case - The White House.
Don’t get me started about Obama demonization. People right and left wing talk about how Obama gets all this great media treatment. Maybe in msnbc, but everywhere from fox, to online, to political adds, he gets way more demonized than John McCain. The only thing nonessential to McCain’s policies he gets criticized for his his age (and I think that’s stupid too). Obama’s called everything Brainglutton’s mentioned plus I’d like to add sexist and celebrity (like Paris Hilton ans Briteny Spears) to that list too.
You know why it is? It’s simply because he’s different than your typical American running for president. Of all things, he lived in Indonesia as a kid which is predominantly muslim, and some people have an islamophobic way of labeling all muslims terrorists, so he’s especially vulnerable to this kind of demonizing.
This demonizing isn’t old. It’s a dirty old trick as old as politics itself. John Kerry was also called a terrorist and an American troop hater, plus his swiftboat veteran pride was quick to be smeared to look like fraud. Now let’s put barack Obama instead of John Kerry. He’s even more vulnerable to such demonization. Fortunately, it isn’t working because Americans are sick of all this bashing the other candidate. polls suggest that John McCain’s support is going down because of his attack ads.
This is not even a right or left thing. Even people of the right don’t like the attacking, even to a certain extent, John McCain himself. Look at his face during the rallies when people call Obama a “terrorist”. He knows he relies on votes from nuts like those when doing his attack strategy, but is pressured to do so anyways because Obama has been so careful not to look hateful so they have to rely on things nonessential to political views to make people fear the other candidate rather than persuading them that their views are right. They hope that’ll work like it did in 04.
Well, not in this thread, he didn’t. In fact, he hasn’t posted to this thread since early July, before Palin was on any radar screens around here.
Really, if you want to legitimately respond to his request for a cite, simple courtesy should dictate that the cite be to something that existed when he asked for it.
So in catching up, the real reason that I think that happens when someone does connect but is demonized are multiple (and wordy)…