re: Political Discourse is dead and liberals killed it

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ust trade out Feinstein for Biden.

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but Biden actually voted yes on Thomas

so in someways not the same at all...

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but Biden actually voted yes on Thomas

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He did not (but 11 Democrats did).

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Seems like the outrage machine would have ran pretty hard with that. I don’t remember hearing that.

However a conservative can’t speak at a university for fear of violence. Even if he does brave it, the administration shuts it down. Those are legitimate examples. Got any others?

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As to your other point.. this is what Bernie Sanders had to say about it.

“Obviously Ann Coulter’s outrageous ? to my mind, off the wall. But you know, people have a right to give their two cents-worth, give a speech, without fear of violence and intimidation."

"To me, it’s a sign of intellectual weakness,” he said. “If you can’t ask Ann Coulter in a polite way questions which expose the weakness of her arguments, if all you can do is boo, or shut her down, or prevent her from coming, what does that tell the world?”

"What are you afraid of ? her ideas? Ask her the hard questions,” he concluded. “Confront her intellectually. Booing people down, or intimidating people, or shutting down events, I don’t think that that works in any way.”

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I think the country will split into roughly coastal and non coastal. It may take 50 years, but I see no way around it.

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i was amazed that people seriously cited tech as a reason why things would stay together and ok

tech and automation will just rile up the left even more with class warfare

Political discourse was killed when logical fallacies were allowed as valid arguments. In our current time period, yes the left tends to use them more than the right, but it doesn't take a time machine to go back to a period where "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!?!!!" was a rallying cry for the right.

Weak.

I guess.

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Political Discourse is dead and Rush Limbaugh killed it in the 1980s

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FIFY

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Are you seriously trying to argue that Trump didn't mean what he said so it doesn't matter?

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Are you new to his twitter account?? Half of what he says is just rhetoric meant to rile up his opposition. How the hell have you not figured this out yet?

Has he pushed ANY sort of legislation or actually done anything that is even remotely on the same page as hundreds of emotional democrats rioting on college campuses when a speaker they don't like comes to visit? Or facebook, twitter, youtube etc. selectively enforcing their rules to target conservatives?

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Republicans need to take a look in the mirror because they have become what they hate.. SJWs

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Adorable, when hundreds of Republicans get arrested at the next inauguration for throwing chairs at Starbucks windows, let me know.

Sorry you got caught making a bad comparison.