I've been getting a lot of posts from the right. Notably, from Human Events, Ann Coulter, Patrick Buchanan, Patriot Ledger, etc. I will not dignify them with a link.I had thought there could be a meeting of the minds. I had thought we could have a rational discussion.
I was wrong.
I had forgotten the first rule of fascist propaganda: demonize your opponent.
According to the latest drivel from Human Events, I am a member of the extreme left and part of a conspiracy to make the USA socialist. According to Ann Coulter, people like me are "spineless little girls in pretty dresses who can't play rough because it musses up their hair."
Claire McCaskill, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, sent an email to Senator John Comyn, National Republican Senatorial Committee. It opens this way:
Senate Democrats are ready to turn President Obama's bold prescription for the country into the law of the land. But Republicans just keep standing in our way. That's not what America voted for last November. We want a new direction. The change we all seek starts with each and every one of us. Today, we have a tremendous opportunity to give Barack Obama the filibuster-proof Senate majority he will need to put this country back on course.
John Comyn replied beginning with this:
I received an unbelievable email from Claire "lean to the left" McCaskill, the DSCC's latest "snake oil" pitchman for failed policies. In it she calls Republicans "naysayers" for asking hard questions about the higher taxes and runaway federal spending currently before the Senate. She even calls Obama's dangerous plans a "bold prescription" for America.
Which rhetoric sounds more believable? Forget whether you are a Republican or a Democrat. Listen to the temperature of the rhetoric. How people say things is important. What people say is important. By using demonizing rhetoric, Comyn draws his lines in the sand: I don't have to respond to the opposing viewpoint as they are contemptible.
These people don't want debate. These people want power. And they will say anything to get it.
Okay. As far as I'm concerned, they are tainted. If they don't want me to use reason in discussion, I am compelled to believe their position will not stand up to reason.
The Republicans truly are the party of the stupid white guys.
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