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Saying the Democrats are uniquely focused on racial and LGBT issues is completely detached from reality.

by alphabettsy 1y ago

baggy_trough 1y ago
In what way? This is a huge part of their message.
- tstrimple 1y ago
  It's more a huge part of messaging from conservatives about liberals. And that you think otherwise indicates your media bias. Democrats respond to Republican cultural issues. As they should. When Republicans state that immigrants are eating your cats and dogs you'd better well fucking address the nonsense otherwise people like you start thinking Haitians are actually out there eating people's pets.
  - Nathanba 1y ago
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    - tstrimple 1y ago
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    - Nevermark 1y ago
      > no matter how bad Trump gets, at least he doesn't claim yet that the sky is green Just coal then? Trump speaks nonstop nonsense. His policies don't even make sense to what is left of the Republican Party that isn't "all with him". The left does get shrill about equal rights, but then, the people they aim to protect have been persecuted. I mean people actually brutalized for just being themselves - and I am talking about friends and family and ambulances, and surgeries after surgery. And now, Trump's idea of finding balance is to continue/resume denigrating many classes of people. So that's not an issue the Republican party comes out ahead on right now. I personally don't understand why anyone would label themselves right or left. Group identification is disastrous for balanced thinking. Like noticing the left is shrill, but not noticing the right's idea of balance is to ignore or celebrate second class treatment for millions of people. Group identification is also ruinous for any kind of actual innovative thinking, as apposed to ideology. Reality and reason have nothing to do with political power alignments. The runaway centralization of power within the two parties has become the biggest impediment to US competence.
    - kelnos 1y ago
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  - baggy_trough 1y ago
    It’s both.

Saying the Democrats are uniquely focused on racial and LGBT issues is completely detached from reality.

baggy_trough 1y ago

In what way? This is a huge part of their message.

tstrimple 1y ago
It's more a huge part of messaging from conservatives about liberals. And that you think otherwise indicates your media bias. Democrats respond to Republican cultural issues. As they should. When Republicans state that immigrants are eating your cats and dogs you'd better well fucking address the nonsense otherwise people like you start thinking Haitians are actually out there eating people's pets.
- Nathanba 1y ago
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  - tstrimple 1y ago
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  - Nevermark 1y ago
    > no matter how bad Trump gets, at least he doesn't claim yet that the sky is green Just coal then? Trump speaks nonstop nonsense. His policies don't even make sense to what is left of the Republican Party that isn't "all with him". The left does get shrill about equal rights, but then, the people they aim to protect have been persecuted. I mean people actually brutalized for just being themselves - and I am talking about friends and family and ambulances, and surgeries after surgery. And now, Trump's idea of finding balance is to continue/resume denigrating many classes of people. So that's not an issue the Republican party comes out ahead on right now. I personally don't understand why anyone would label themselves right or left. Group identification is disastrous for balanced thinking. Like noticing the left is shrill, but not noticing the right's idea of balance is to ignore or celebrate second class treatment for millions of people. Group identification is also ruinous for any kind of actual innovative thinking, as apposed to ideology. Reality and reason have nothing to do with political power alignments. The runaway centralization of power within the two parties has become the biggest impediment to US competence.
  - kelnos 1y ago
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- baggy_trough 1y ago
  It’s both.