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re: Why are both sides of the PoliBoard melting so hard right now?
Posted on 12/22/14 at 10:49 am to FT
Posted on 12/22/14 at 10:49 am to FT
One side is claiming that Democratic politicians and the media are partially culpable for this outcome.
The other side is calling them hypocrites because they were called out for doing the exact same thing in the past.
The Democrats believe they have the moral high ground and are throwing the words of Republicans back in their faces, despite the fact that they've acted in contrast to those very positions before.
Republicans don't want to miss an opportunity to shame an opponent and they don't want to give up the chance, knowing that that tactic will be used against them, despite what is said.
In the end, neither side would give up the chance to attack a political adversary and neither side has the moral high ground.
This is how politics is and always will be, a disgusting display of partisanship.
The other side is calling them hypocrites because they were called out for doing the exact same thing in the past.
The Democrats believe they have the moral high ground and are throwing the words of Republicans back in their faces, despite the fact that they've acted in contrast to those very positions before.
Republicans don't want to miss an opportunity to shame an opponent and they don't want to give up the chance, knowing that that tactic will be used against them, despite what is said.
In the end, neither side would give up the chance to attack a political adversary and neither side has the moral high ground.
This is how politics is and always will be, a disgusting display of partisanship.
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Posted on 12/22/14 at 10:53 am to Scruffy
That's essentially what this board has always been:
it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Posted on 12/22/14 at 11:04 am to Scruffy
quote:
This is how politics is and always will be, a disgusting display of partisanship.
However disgusting it may be, we can't avoid the fact that one side survives to see the Sun rise in the East, and the other side is shite on the Serengeti plains. It's called life.
Posted on 12/22/14 at 11:53 am to Scruffy
Well, one issue that liberals are drawing to as a parallel really doesn't work. Liberals claimed that the angry rhetoric of the Tea Party "targeting" politicians could lead to violence. When Congresswoman Giffords was shot, this act of violence was immediately attributed to the Tea Party rhetoric. In this case, however, rhetoric had nothing to do with it because the shooter was, in fact, a liberal democrat. Conservatives defended their rhetoric because it held no bearing on the issue to which it was being attributed.
Where conservatives deserve criticism for their rhetoric leading to dangerous actions lies in the IRS airplane bombing a few years ago. Thankfully, no one but the deranged pilot was killed in that fiasco.
In the case of the police shooting in New York, the violent anti-police, anti-establishment, and anti-white narrative actually played a tremendous role in the mind of the shooter. In fact, the shooter's social media accounts were filled with such rhetoric. DeBlasio's campaign for mayor was often seen as a rebuke against the heavy-handed police tactics seen during the Bloomberg administration. DeBlasio also often played on that anti-police, anti-white rhetoric during his campaign, and doubled down on it in the past weeks. He deserves all of the criticism he is getting even though it really is not his fault that those policemen where killed.
In all honesty, everyone in the public eye needs to take a hard look in the mirror and maybe, just maybe, taking it down a notch.
Where conservatives deserve criticism for their rhetoric leading to dangerous actions lies in the IRS airplane bombing a few years ago. Thankfully, no one but the deranged pilot was killed in that fiasco.
In the case of the police shooting in New York, the violent anti-police, anti-establishment, and anti-white narrative actually played a tremendous role in the mind of the shooter. In fact, the shooter's social media accounts were filled with such rhetoric. DeBlasio's campaign for mayor was often seen as a rebuke against the heavy-handed police tactics seen during the Bloomberg administration. DeBlasio also often played on that anti-police, anti-white rhetoric during his campaign, and doubled down on it in the past weeks. He deserves all of the criticism he is getting even though it really is not his fault that those policemen where killed.
In all honesty, everyone in the public eye needs to take a hard look in the mirror and maybe, just maybe, taking it down a notch.
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