At the risk of sounding priggish, this remark does not strike me as striking the tone that the Bulwark encourages in its commenters. Plenty of other places to go for this.
Harsh. It's only being publicized because some god-damned Republican politicians can get the non-thinking mob angered enough to use THIS topic as a reason to pick them in their red district primary (most of our country's districts for the House are single party districts with no viable opposition).This has forced the national Democratic party to respond to the publicity and sensationalism and , with assholes like Desantis, extremism by creating a counter-argument to what shouldn't even be an issue in most people's political priorities in the first place. And good luck presenting a counter that doesn't seem to promote a life or lifestyle that most people were content to address as 'live and let live' before the bottomless pit of Republican political seekers saw its mob-exciting potential.
You’re clearly not interested in a rational discussion so I’m not going to give you one.
All I’m going to say is that saying “I’m right, you’re a bigot” in response to differing opinions on an extraordinarily controversial set of issues, as demonstrated by the polls Charlie cited, is a large part of the sentiment that pushes people to support Trump. I voted for Hillary/Biden and will continue to do so and the Trump deadenders are obviously a lost cause, but this kind of lack of respectful dialogue makes otherwise persuadable people want to say “screw you, I’m voting for Trump”.
But by all means, ignore the ABC/WaPo poll showing Trump and DeSantis both clobbering Biden and keep singing that tune. I’m sure it will persuade somebody.
At the risk of sounding priggish, this remark does not strike me as striking the tone that the Bulwark encourages in its commenters. Plenty of other places to go for this.
Harsh. It's only being publicized because some god-damned Republican politicians can get the non-thinking mob angered enough to use THIS topic as a reason to pick them in their red district primary (most of our country's districts for the House are single party districts with no viable opposition).This has forced the national Democratic party to respond to the publicity and sensationalism and , with assholes like Desantis, extremism by creating a counter-argument to what shouldn't even be an issue in most people's political priorities in the first place. And good luck presenting a counter that doesn't seem to promote a life or lifestyle that most people were content to address as 'live and let live' before the bottomless pit of Republican political seekers saw its mob-exciting potential.
Very persuasive. I can see you’ve put a lot of thought into this.
You’re clearly not interested in a rational discussion so I’m not going to give you one.
All I’m going to say is that saying “I’m right, you’re a bigot” in response to differing opinions on an extraordinarily controversial set of issues, as demonstrated by the polls Charlie cited, is a large part of the sentiment that pushes people to support Trump. I voted for Hillary/Biden and will continue to do so and the Trump deadenders are obviously a lost cause, but this kind of lack of respectful dialogue makes otherwise persuadable people want to say “screw you, I’m voting for Trump”.
But by all means, ignore the ABC/WaPo poll showing Trump and DeSantis both clobbering Biden and keep singing that tune. I’m sure it will persuade somebody.