I understand why lifelong conservatives (like reader Dreidel, for example) need to indulge in “Hillary and Trump are the same” narratives. I even feel sympathy because seeing your party become what the GOP has become can’t be easy.
But I can’t accept Liberals who promote this narrative. Their complete intellectual and moral collapse is painful to observe. It’s like looking at putrefying corpses of people I used to like.
Which is why I have deleted such folks (total number: 16) from my Facebook and blog roll It’s easier to pretend they emigrated to Mongolia than to keep seeing their degradation.
I’m better than anybody I know at having good relationships with people of opposing political views. But observing the agony of formerly vibrant intellects is intolerable.
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“But I can’t accept Liberals who promote this narrative.”
Same here. I can’t accept liberals who believe in illiberal things. Either you can do whatever you want, or you can call yourself whatever you want. But you can’t do both. It’s like housewives calling themselves feminists.
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“Either you can do whatever you want, or you can call yourself whatever you want. But you can’t do both.”
Can I steal this? It could spare me so many long, fruitless discussions.
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It’s like housewives calling themselves feminists.
Yes! Thank you for saying this.
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I completely agree. I even can deal with Trump supporters. I find them gross and vile. But hey, they are gross and vile and they like the gross and vile candidate. I get it. But I can’t accept supposed progressives who refuse to vote for Clinton because of their “ideals” or “ethics” or whatever else they going on about while they mourn Bernie Sanders as if he was some type of god (even as they refuse to do as Sanders asks and vote for Clinton.) And I seriously have come to despise Jill Stein. Ugh.
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I haven’t been to Mongolia. But, the plane that flys to Mongolia from Istanbul stops first in Bishkek and it is the one I have taken to Kyrgyzstan the last couple of years. So I have talked to a number of Mongolians and people that have spent time there. It seems like it is a very interesting country. If I didn’t have obligations requiring me to be at other places I would definitely go see it. But, I have noticed that a lot of vile European NGO parasites continue on the plane to Ulan Baator.That is bad enough for the people of Mongolia. They don’t need another 16 degraded people making things worse for them. 😉
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You are right, shame on me for wishing this on Mongolia. Let me imagine, instead, that they went to Vladivostok. Until it finally becomes Chinese, it deserves all that’s coming to it.
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Isn’t it a rationalization for voting for the other (comparative) nationalist instead of the globalist?
The political spectrum in lots of countries is realigning (in the US for the fist time since about 1980) and the old distinctions don’t make much sense.
I hope Clinton wins in November (though I still think she should have won in 2008 so she could pass it off to Obama or Warren).
But Trump and Sanders are the beginning, not the end. No matter who wins now future elections are going to more and more obviously revolve around politicians who put American citizen interests first (or say they do) and ones who think the US government owes at least as much to central American and middle eastern migrants as it does to citizens, maybe more….
Sanders became a good party man but it cost him a lot of support and I’m sure there are other progressive democrats who will be looking to offer the Bernites a non-globalist harbor….
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They are simply spoiled and bored. In these specific people I’m talking about, it’s all about boredom and search for entertainment.
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An Eight Point Brief For Lesser Evil Voting by Noam Chomsky
1) Voting should not be viewed as a form of personal self-expression or moral judgement directed in retaliation towards major party candidates who fail to reflect our values, or of a corrupt system designed to limit choices to those acceptable to corporate elites.
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