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originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: Wide-Eyes
Indeed.
I am, in many ways, a liberal. Not todays brand of, but from a bit further back in time.
Leftist is a much better descriptor.
That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought “Fine.”
That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, “Okay.”
That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, “No problem.”
That when he made up stories about seeing muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, “Not an issue.”
That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn’t care, you chirped, “He sure knows me.”
That when you heard him illustrate his own character by telling that cute story about the elderly guest bleeding on the floor at his country club, the story about how he turned his back and how it was all an imposition on him, you said, “That’s cool!”
That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw.
That when you heard him brag that he doesn’t read books, you said, “Well, who has time?”
That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn’t commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, “That makes sense.”
That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, “Yes!”
That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man’s coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, “What a great guy!”
That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, “Thumbs up!”
That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, “That’s the way I want my President to be.”
That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they’re supposed to be regulating and you have said, “What a genius!”
Why do liberals think trump supporters are stupi
originally posted by: Wayfarer
originally posted by: Edumakated
originally posted by: soundguy
I believe author nails it. I don’t consider myself a liberal. Well in the sense that I suspend my deductive reasoning and life experiences for a political subset. None the less, I agree with his observations. The one thing that isn’t addressed in the article is how a small percentage of well meaning Americans have been conned. Kinda like my next door nieghbor. He listens to am hate radio by day and it has poisoned his thought process. While he is busy hating and fearing people he doesn’t know. His fellow white conservative, (cough....), brethren are about to destroy his way of life. Unfortunately, he will never see it coming, and that’s sad.
www.thepoke.co.uk...
The author missed it and smashed his thumb... all of the examples the author gives to prove his point have been debunked multiple times... but see you wouldn't be aware of this as you never leave your echo chamber.
How do you mean? He's here posting in ATS (a majority MAGA echo chamber)....
I'm a fan.
originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: Wayfarer
Oh, I'm sorry.
This accusation is brought up on a very regular basis, has been ever since I started posting here.
ATS is "always" some groups echo chamber. Be it conservative, liberal, progressive, who ever... The commonality of the accusations is the fact that the accusation are, in very large part, patently false. Does it swing back and forth in various directions? Of course it does, but never to the point of "echo chamber".
But if it makes you happy to believe otherwise, feel free. A true echo chamber would see dissenting opinions on left/right politics of the sort being discussed herein gone. Last I looked, there is all sorts of dissenting goin' on around this place.