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Liberal Intolerance (2 Viewers)
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bueno
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sublimeone
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You guys are perfectly illustrating the point. Here I'll help: https://maxpics.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/kkk-yes-we-klan-elephant.jpg
GrandpaRox
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massraider
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Blick
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Flying Spaghetti Monster
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massraider
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massraider
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Intolerance is one of the key planks in this awful platform, and you want everyone to be tolerant of your intolerance. You think you've unearthed some amazing hypocrisy because liberals won't silently allow this.
Whatever. It's terribly hypocritical. You got me!! I admit it. yawn.
Whatever. It's terribly hypocritical. You got me!! I admit it. yawn.
John McCain: National Hero
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And, while we're at it, what about the ex-con vote? Democrats were in a frenzy to register as many ex-cons as they could in Virginia. Don't know about other states. "Vote Hillary! 90% of America's ex-cons can't be wrong!"
Scoresman
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saintfool
Dead sexy
Let's remember that, while the GOP/Trump won the election, they lost the popular vote. The demographics for the Left is younger, urban dwelling, and diverse as much as anything. We represent the great cities of America often times. I'm not against small towns, rural America, the Heartland or the South but let's not rhapsodize about GOP representing the poor and middle class. The Dems are just as much the part of the poor, disenfranchised and vulnerable as the GOP is. The GOP is just as much a part of the 1% as the Dems are too.
bueno
In a class by himself
RnR
Footballguy
Liberal: We must respect everyone's rights and opinions. Free speech and diversity are important. They are pillars to what makes us who we are.
Random person: I believe in {INSERT COMMENT THAT DOESN'T JIVE WITH SAID LIBERAL'S IDEOLOGY}.
Liberal: You're a small-minded idiot. A bigot, a racist, and just not bright. It's people like you that make this country terrible.
Random person: Oh....
Liberal: God, you people are so stupid. I can't believe Trump is going to be president.
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Ramsay Hunt Experience
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Flying Spaghetti Monster
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Sick of hear about how the Dems are growing and will take over in a few years JUST wait. We lost because some people are too %#$#% lazy or stupid to vote. The Dems didn't fight the new voter restrictions like they should have and NOW we get trump. Eat it and smile you lazy $#%# I hope they choke.
sublimeone
Footballguy
I haven't unearthed anything. I linked to three liberals journalists that seem to have come to a similar conclusion. The thing you seem to not be comprehending is that this tactic is hurting discourse and the overall good. We need both sides. Left-minded people bring a lot of good to the table and so do Right-minded. The reason we end up with a Trump is because people have been marginalized and are angry and the lefts continued insistence that the right is just a bunch of closeted KKK members only exacerbates the situation.
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Earlier I posted that the bitterness had dropped a little since the election results came in. Nope, it's still in full effect.
sublimeone
Footballguy
I pretty much agree with everything you're saying. Take a look county by county... sure the young tend to lean left, as they always have, but Clinton got 54% of the millennial vote... hardly a landslide. My point is, republicans and democrats are not as different as they are being portrayed. Take a look at the other demographics... they tend to be pretty close. And the continued effort to portray republicans as imbeciles and democrats as the enlightened does absolutely nothing to move the county forward... in fact in does the exact opposite: Trump.
mrip541
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If people wanted the left to stop thinking folks on the right are all racist xenophobes, electing Trump was one of the worst possible things that could have happened. What this election did is "prove" to the left that the right is in fact all closeted KKK members.
saintfool
Dead sexy
I'm not saying anything about Dems growing or taking over. Dems lost and GOP won for myriad reasons. What I *am* saying is this notion of the Left being "out of touch" or not speaking for all American is patently absurd. Dems have a pretty big tent. They lost the election by a pretty narrow margin really - a few votes in keys states could have made the difference - but Dem Party values are still pretty popular.
Jayrod
Footballguy
This thread is moving pretty fast, but what about the negative liberal stereotypes?
The black welfare mother of 5 in the inner city that just wants her government handouts so she can spend all day on her free cell phone and ignore her fatherless children running drugs and in gangs?
The whiny entitled college grad with no job living in mom and dad's basement that thinks he should have walked into a 70K/yr job out of college coming up with clever slogans to print on coffee mugs?
The liberal professor who has never held a job outside of academia and thinks he knows how to best run...well...everything?
Like the stereotypes of the right, there are people that embody portions of these traits, but it is hardly the norm.
The black welfare mother of 5 in the inner city that just wants her government handouts so she can spend all day on her free cell phone and ignore her fatherless children running drugs and in gangs?
The whiny entitled college grad with no job living in mom and dad's basement that thinks he should have walked into a 70K/yr job out of college coming up with clever slogans to print on coffee mugs?
The liberal professor who has never held a job outside of academia and thinks he knows how to best run...well...everything?
Like the stereotypes of the right, there are people that embody portions of these traits, but it is hardly the norm.
matttyl
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So this line got me thinking about a line I heard yesterday, which sums up what actually happened earlier this week (and for the past few months).....
"The pundits and the media took Trump literally but not seriously, the electorate took him seriously but not literally."
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As people get older, move out of the basement, get jobs, pay taxes and start a family, they'll become republicans.
sublimeone
Footballguy
Indeed... if more respectful tactics were employed I think you'd see more of your platform enacted.
massraider
Footballguy
You didn't need both sides when Obama was elected.
The side that wins suddenly preaches compromise. The right has zero, ZERO interest in compromise for the last 8 years. Who are you kidding?
RnR
Footballguy
In heavy-populated urban areas? Absolutely. The rest of the country? Not so much. Just look at the red/blue on votes in each state.
Scoresman
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I think a key here is that when it comes to issues such as anti-gay, some on the right will support laws restricting the rights of gays, and that is what the left won't tolerate. Nobody is saying the right should not be allowed to express or hold whatever beliefs they have.
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massraider
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The way it was the last 8 years? Obama strike you as disrespectful?
The lack of awareness here is scary.
saintfool
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I don't think Dems portray themselves as enlightened anymore than the GOP often regard Dems and big cities as cesspools filled with Godless heathens.
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I guess that's my point. I'm not anti-gay and I didn't vote for Clinton, but most liberals wouldn't even take the time to figure out I'm a reasonable, educated, nuanced person that simply disagrees with the policies of the democratic party. In many liberal eyes, I'm already branded as an intolerant bigot.
When you start painting with that broad brush for long enough, people get pissed. And they do things like voting Donald Trump into office.
massraider
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There you go: claim victory, at least here's an honest man.
They have complete control, no excuses right? We're gonna make America great again.
What happens first, mass deportation or the wall?
Serious question.
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Footballguy
I respectfully disagree. We Americans ^#%^ hate each other and that is how we find our identity. Anything that hurts the groups that they hate will get their full support.
Hate Trumps everything else.
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matttyl
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Was going to say the same thing. I went to a liberal arts school. It's funny how many of them who were hard core lefties started shifting toward the middle (and we're still in our mid to late 30s) and may continue to move more to the right as they get to their 40s, 50s and 60s.
RnR
Footballguy
If that were actually the practice, I don't think you'd find many reasonable people that disagree with you. But if you cry wolf on racism and bigotry at any person who doesn't vote for your candidate, you're being intolerant. And it rubs people the wrong way.
Jayrod
Footballguy
Reminds me of a line a friend likes to say, "If you are young and don't vote liberal, you don't have a heart. If you are older and you don't vote conservative, you don't have a brain."
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Footballguy
Serious answer will be to change our foreign policy to benefit Russia. Deportation is next but trump will be have to be able to at least triple with immigration agents, OR he could just declare a national emergency and then authorize military to do it. if he chooses the military then he could get the trains running and a few weeks. Give them a bottle of water and drop them off about 1/2 mile from the border. Tell them if we see them again there is a second train car that leads to a place where no one ever comes back.
Simple plan and therefore one that Trump can understand.
Bogeys
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I know I am in the minority on this, but he has always come across and arrogant and condescending most times I have heard him speak. Never came across as a great communicator to me, but part of that is probably that I disagreed with much of what he said...although I also didn't agree on much with Bill C, but did think he gave a great speech.
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I have heard it as..If you have a very difficult upbringing you will learn empathy, if you are spoiled and egotistical you will be an #######.Jayrod said:
