IsaacNewton
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I'm not talking about America.
I'm talking about the current state of conservative red faced unglued hysteria that is accepted as normal behavior. The willingness to accept any proclamation from someone like Trump no matter how crazy it is. To accept any conspiracy theory as having merit.
The wail and cry from this off-the-map segment of the conservative right is now and will be here today 'well both sides do it'. No they don't. There is not a 'two sided coin' to every thought or statement or movement. What we have today is a coin with a person on one side and on the other side the image of a possessed and demonic Regan from The Exorcist. The false equivalency is in fact one of the fake arguing positions of this fanatical movement. They use all the tools available to blur the picture and portray themselves as just the 'opposition party'.
There was an opposition party 25 years ago. Anyone old enough knows the political parties used to argue loudly about things but they then got the business of the country done by compromise. Today the, call it whatever you like, alt-right, far right, tea baggers, whatever, they demand no compromise and instead demand their political leaders force everyone else to do their bidding and if you don't like it tough shit.
Sorry that isn't how democracy works. It never has and never will. The political death of this fanatical segment of the nation is what is needed.
Leonard Pitts: For the Republicans, defeat is not enough
I'm talking about the current state of conservative red faced unglued hysteria that is accepted as normal behavior. The willingness to accept any proclamation from someone like Trump no matter how crazy it is. To accept any conspiracy theory as having merit.
The wail and cry from this off-the-map segment of the conservative right is now and will be here today 'well both sides do it'. No they don't. There is not a 'two sided coin' to every thought or statement or movement. What we have today is a coin with a person on one side and on the other side the image of a possessed and demonic Regan from The Exorcist. The false equivalency is in fact one of the fake arguing positions of this fanatical movement. They use all the tools available to blur the picture and portray themselves as just the 'opposition party'.
There was an opposition party 25 years ago. Anyone old enough knows the political parties used to argue loudly about things but they then got the business of the country done by compromise. Today the, call it whatever you like, alt-right, far right, tea baggers, whatever, they demand no compromise and instead demand their political leaders force everyone else to do their bidding and if you don't like it tough shit.
Sorry that isn't how democracy works. It never has and never will. The political death of this fanatical segment of the nation is what is needed.
Leonard Pitts: For the Republicans, defeat is not enough
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