Kraichgauer
Veteran
Joined: 12 Apr 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 49,239
Location: Spokane area, Washington state.
31 Jul 2011, 1:32 pm
marshall wrote:
Orwell wrote:
And it does no one any favors to paint a false equivalence. I'm sick of pretending the two sides are the same, that both are equally at fault and equally unreasonable. That's just not true. The right wing in this country is batshit crazy, the Republicans have always been the fiscally irresponsible ones, they are the ones who loudly cry out in favor of a state policy of torture and preemptive war, they are always the first to want to destroy any successful thing that has been built up by our society's collective efforts and trample the poor and needy. There is no moral equivalence between the left and the right. The right is wrong.
I'm also sick of all the whining about those of us opposed to the recent far-right push in the US to "be more even handed". That and asking me to be equally critical of Democrats. *caugh* I'm not a god-damned Democrat, get that through your thick skull! I have no loyalty to any political party and I would be bashing Democrats as well were it not for the fact that the Republicans and Tea Partiers are several times more insane and destructive these days.
Speaking as a Democrat, that's good enough for me.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
