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Framing it as "Good" vs "Evil" is half the problem. The real issue is a lot of the left have assigned morality to policy decisions and concepts about how govern
by meddlepal 9y ago
Framing it as "Good" vs "Evil" is half the problem. The real issue is a lot of the left have assigned morality to policy decisions and concepts about how government should work. You may strongly disagree with scaling back the EPA, FDA, banking regulation, Net Neutrality and who knows what other regulations but that does not scaling or removing regulation evil.
The rhetoric from the left that any disagreement with the left is "evil" is a really sad development for the United States and democracy. It has a chilling effect on any kind of debate once you brand your opponents as "evil".
- lurr 9y agoOkay, how about shortsighted, stupid, corrupt, etc...? This also sounds like an argument for political correctness.
- meddlepal 9y agoNone of those are exclusive attributes of the right. Democrats have done lots of all of the above. For example, stupid and shortsighted... the Employer Mandate for health insurance which had the unintended consequence of businesses realizing it was cheaper to hire an extra employee or two so that they didn't have to make anyone Full Time employees and pay for insurance or get hit by the penalty tax. Democrats and and pro-Union policies also generally have lots of dumb shortsighted unintended consequences for how businesses operate. Don't even start with corruption. Both sides are corrupt in their own ways.
- lurr 9y agoSee, this is why evil is better. Less whataboutism. Of course I believe that the republican parties current path will lead to the destruction of America. So I'm probably not worth talking to.