Ridiculous Partisanship is Crippling Civic Discussion and not only that...

[JimBowie1958]

When REpublicans insist that Bernie Sanders is a communist (by quoting him out of context or from decades ago) or when Dims insist that Trump is an incompetent buffoon and a racist (by quoting him out of context or from decades ago) it really does not make the poster look smart or well informed.

It makes them look like drooling morons.

When I am reading a post and I come to some wildly partisan claim that I know to be false, I stop reading it, for the most part. The poster has lost all credibility with me when they reveal that they cannot think for themselves and cannot dig up relevant and accurate facts.

Sanders is not a communist and Trump is not an idiot.

YOU ARE if you push these absurd clams.

So cut it out if you want anyone to take you seriously.

 

[frigidweirdo]

When REpublicans insist that Bernie Sanders is a communist (by quoting him out of context or from decades ago) or when Dims insist that Trump is an incompetent buffoon and a racist (by quoting him out of context or from decades ago) it really does not make the poster look smart or well informed.

It makes them look like drooling morons.

When I am reading a post and I come to some wildly partisan claim that I know to be false, I stop reading it, for the most part. The poster has lost all credibility with me when they reveal that they cannot think for themselves and cannot dig up relevant and accurate facts.

Sanders is not a communist and Trump is not an idiot.

YOU ARE if you push these absurd clams.

So cut it out if you want anyone to take you seriously.

It's what happens when you have two teams.

PR is required so people can choose their own political beliefs and find a party to suit those, rather than trying to fit the ideals of two useless political parties.

 

[LoneLaugher]

This, coming from you, is awesome.

 

[LoneLaugher]

This is a good example of how to be credible.

This president is a disgusting fascist stealth dictator.

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[TNHarley]

Trump is an idiot. He is a genius in his own right, but he IS an idiot.
I totally agree with the premise though.
Partisanship is killing our country.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Bernie Sanders is a Communist and an Ignoramus

Obviously, someone who works for socialism is a socialist; someone who works for communism is a communist. (Someone who joins a political party that advocates communism is a Communist with a capital-C. Someone like Bill Ayers who believes in communism but hasn't joined a party is a small-c communist.)

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Stalin & Sanders: Democratic Socialists

In the Name of Lenin, What’s a ‘Democratic Socialist?’

 

[Toro]

When REpublicans insist that Bernie Sanders is a communist (by quoting him out of context or from decades ago) or when Dims insist that Trump is an incompetent buffoon and a racist (by quoting him out of context or from decades ago) it really does not make the poster look smart or well informed.

It makes them look like drooling morons.

When I am reading a post and I come to some wildly partisan claim that I know to be false, I stop reading it, for the most part. The poster has lost all credibility with me when they reveal that they cannot think for themselves and cannot dig up relevant and accurate facts.

Sanders is not a communist and Trump is not an idiot.

YOU ARE if you push these absurd clams.

So cut it out if you want anyone to take you seriously.

It’s at the top.

Trump degraded and demeaned his opponents and certain minority groups.

Hillary degraded and demeaned those who voted for Trump.

 

[Mac1958]

So cut it out if you want anyone to take you seriously.

Well, that may be the flaw in your thinking. I'm not sure any of this is meant to be taken seriously.

Or on the other hand, when someone is afflicted with a hardcore partisan ideology, they actually believe the insane shit they say. They just blurt the shit out and are conditioned to believe it as it leaves their lips.

Either way, they're not gonna stop.
.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Either way, they're not gonna stop.

No. "Moderates" have corrupted the language. Sanders IS an unAMERICAN socialist.

 

[Marion Morrison]

 

[PoliticalChic]

When REpublicans insist that Bernie Sanders is a communist (by quoting him out of context or from decades ago) or when Dims insist that Trump is an incompetent buffoon and a racist (by quoting him out of context or from decades ago) it really does not make the poster look smart or well informed.

It makes them look like drooling morons.

When I am reading a post and I come to some wildly partisan claim that I know to be false, I stop reading it, for the most part. The poster has lost all credibility with me when they reveal that they cannot think for themselves and cannot dig up relevant and accurate facts.

Sanders is not a communist and Trump is not an idiot.

YOU ARE if you push these absurd clams.

So cut it out if you want anyone to take you seriously.

'When REpublicans insist that Bernie Sanders is a communist (by quoting him out of context or from decades ago)...'


Bernie is, and has never changed over those decades....


1. " [At] the University of Chicago, Sanders joined the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party USA. He also organized for a communist front, the United Packinghouse Workers Union, which at the time was under investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.


2. ...graduating with a political science degree, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he headed the American People’s History Society, an organ for Marxist propaganda. There, he produced a glowing documentary on the life of socialist revolutionary Eugene Debs, who was jailed for espionage during the Red Scare and hailed by the Bolsheviks as “America’s greatest Marxist.” Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist | New York Post



But ".... the liberal media elite have suddenly stopped calling him socialist. He’s now cleaned up as a “progressive” or “pragmatist.” NYPost, Op. Cit.


Soialist....commmunist....and Progressive.....

Distinctions without differences.


3." ... Sanders helped found the Liberty Union Party, which called for the nationalization of all US banks and the public takeover of all private utility companies. [Before Maxine Waters, too!]


... Sanders in 1981 managed to get elected mayor of Burlington, Vt., where he restricted property rights for landlords, set price controls and raised property taxes to pay for communal land trusts. Local small businesses distributed fliers complaining their new mayor “does not believe in free enterprise.”



4. His radical activities didn’t stop at the water’s edge. Sanders took several “goodwill” trips not only to the USSR, but also to Cuba and Nicaragua, where the Soviets were trying to expand their influence in our hemisphere.


In 1985, he traveled to Managua to celebrate the rise to power of the Marxist-Leninist Sandinista government. He called it a “heroic revolution.” Undermining anti-communist US policy, Sanders denounced the Reagan administration’s backing of the Contra rebels in a letter to the Sandinistas.


“The Sandinista government has more support among the Nicaraguan people — substantially more support — than Ronald Reagan has among the American people,” Sanders told Vermont government-access TV in 1985." Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist | New York Post



5. "Sanders also adopted a Soviet sister city outside Moscow and honeymooned with his second wife in the USSR. He put up a Soviet flag in his office, shocking even the Birkenstock-wearing local liberals. At the time, the Evil Empire was on the march around the world, and threatening the US with nuclear annihilation.


Then, in 1989, as the West was on the verge of winning the Cold War, Sanders addressed the national conference of the US Peace Council — a known front for the Communist Party USA, whose members swore an oath not only to the Soviet Union but to “the triumph of Soviet power in the US.” Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist | New York Post



6."Today, Sanders wants to bring what he admired in the USSR, Cuba, Nicaragua and other communist states to America.


For starters, he proposes completely nationalizing our health care system and putting private health insurance and drug companies “out of business.” He also wants to break up “big banks” and control the energy industry, while providing “free” college tuition, a “living wage” and guaranteed homeownership and jobs through massive public works projects.


Price tag: $18 trillion.


Who will pay for it all? You will. Sanders plans to not only soak the rich with a 90 percent-plus tax rate, while charging Wall Street a “speculation tax,” but hit every American with a “global-warming tax.”


Of course, even that wouldn’t cover the cost of his communist schemes; a President Sanders would eventually soak the middle class he claims to champion. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need, right?