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Parroting lines from the Daily Show/Colbert Report only makes you seem credible to other young lefties. You're not going to win any converts from the other sid
by redthrowaway 10y ago
Parroting lines from the Daily Show/Colbert Report only makes you seem credible to other young lefties. You're not going to win any converts from the other side; we'll tend to roll our eyes and dismiss the speaker.
- drewrv 10y agoThe line stuck so well because it was so poignant when Colbert said it. This was a time when Karl Rove was criticizing people in the "reality based community" who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." Since then the republican party has gone even further off the deep end.
- redthrowaway 10y ago>Since then the republican party has gone even further off the deep end. Which you say, sincerely, because you're a liberal and the GOP is the other "team" or "tribe". There are plenty of us who don't think of ourselves as Democrats who see plenty of insanity on the left--look at the resurgence of socialism or the social justice crowd on campus and in the media. Both parties have completely lost touch with voters, which is why we saw populist insurgencies in both. If there were more candidates in the Democratic primaries, we could just as easily have seen a Sanders nomination as we did a Trump one. Claiming that political insanity is endemic to only one side ignores the batshit lunacy emanating from both camps.
- drewrv 10y agoThere are plenty of republicans who believe their party is going off the deep end, Mitt Romney for example. And I think there's a lot of insanity on the left too. Thinking a liberal satirist made a good point does not make one a mindless tribal zombie.