Wait. What extreme leftist views are folks hand waving away? And what Democratoc politicians in positions of power and influence are proffering such radical views? I’m especially interested in economic ones.
This is what I mean by hand waving. The Economic views aren't that much at issue. One could debate whether or not the economy is recovering fast enough for the average man or whether the inflationary effects of the last 4 years, especially the first 2 before things calmed down a bit, can be blamed on the current administration in power and their future candidates or not.
Those would be interesting debates. But we know from history how the effects of the economy weigh on voting in the next election.
When things have been bad economically, whichever party is in office almost always loses. That's just that.
But it's often not the economic issues that animates anti leftists. It's the cultural and hypocritical ones.
For Examples:
DEI is in essence just racism with lipstick. And our federal government adopted these policies across the board hook, line and sinker under the present administration.
Trans-ideology is another area that's fraught with problems but that gets hand waved off. No matter what consequences are suffered, it is disregarded as some right wing hate of people who are not like them. As if that was the issue.
We put an intelligent jurist on the Supreme Court who was too scared to define what a woman was at her confirmation. We have a guy ( claiming transgender rights) raping and impregnating 3 women at the NJ Prison and everyone pretends the story is unimportant or unrepresentative. Or is such a minority that we should ignore it all. And with all these stories, the media coverage is just so purposely insanely faulty.
We have Sanctuary Cities with catch and release laws that make criminals go free and re-commit crimes. Defund the Police and it's effects. Etc
I mean for crying out loud, you and yours had to go vote to re-criminalize shoplifting in your State. I mean, it wasn't some right of center Nutjob Legislature or DA's office that decided to let criminals run roughshod over the citizens in your State, was it?
I also don’t think it’s fair to say venom is saved for “anyone” right of center, and that’s a generalized distinction that doesn’t work well anyhow. You already called Trump an “extreme reformer” so we know that at least on one level Trump holds polarized views in your own mind — on issues of reform he’s an extremist. As a pragmatic centrist I object to extremism generally.
2 points - I concede I was generalizing, but the point I was making is that at least until November 6th, the general tenor on these threads ( and I mean all of them) was compliance or be attacked.
I used 'right of center" loosely to mean anyone who didn't march lock and step with everything anti-Trump. Most of those weren't even on the right.
Ask
@Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese who is clearly on the left, he got attacked for daring to say ' well, that's hypocritical." There was another poster who clearly hated Trump and said so often. But made the unacceptable mistake of saying He/she listened to Harris and found her unimpressive. That person too got bombarded as a Trumpist.
Finally, I know it will forever fall on deaf ears here, since I have committed the unforgivable sin of actually voting for Trump- but I have said this often over the years, that I don't like the guy.
I agree he is a narcissist, and bombastic to say the list. Funny enough, he reminds me of
@SWP's back. Crass, and over the top abusive. I used to laugh at SWP, coz he is what Trump would have been, if he was left leaning.
Any, for what it's worth, I have my issues with Trump. But I wholeheartedly preferred him to anything Harris waS offering.
