Democrats don't have a 24/7 fear and rage machine as an information silo.
Sure there are plenty of more conventional alarmist headlines and amen chorus operations, but they're not designed to doomloop viewers into running all day and night the way Fox is.
Personally, I am angry and unforgiving on a variety of subjects. But it's anger aime…
Democrats don't have a 24/7 fear and rage machine as an information silo.
Sure there are plenty of more conventional alarmist headlines and amen chorus operations, but they're not designed to doomloop viewers into running all day and night the way Fox is.
Personally, I am angry and unforgiving on a variety of subjects. But it's anger aimed at specific people and ideologies and specific malfeasances against the country. And I try to understand, even with the people I'm angry at, what their actual motivations and drives are. There's a difference between a Crenshaw and a Gaetz and an MTG. I think Crenshaw is a turd, but in the right circumstances he could be worked with. Even McCarthy could be worked with, given that he's a spineless wuss.
MTG? I suppose if actual Satan was invading the planet and she somehow didn't end up immediately siding with the infernal we could be on the same side, but I'd watch her every friggin' minute.
It's what I've said for some time now- the Dems represent a small-c conservative minority with a greater stake in the well-being of the country, and tend to think in those terms.
Agree the Dems don't have a similar problem. But I wouldn't go easy on Crenshaw/McCarthy. One knows what Gaetz and MTG really stand for and they have repeatedly shown that they believe whatever they stand for 100%. If Crenshaws and McCarthys are the adults and know right from wrong, shouldn't they be using their power to sideline such crazies. But instead they pander, knowing fully well that the beast is going to consume not only them, but the country at some point. If anything they (McCarthy/Censhaw etc.) are the real problem, not Gaetz and MTG.
I'm not easy on Crenshaw at all. He's a POS who pandered to the MAGA crowd by depicting himself as doing combat against American citizens.
McCarthy is a weak little lickspittle who has no business being a representative, let alone the inheritor by default of one of the most important jobs in the country and worse yet in the line of succession.
But politics will always have slimy, suboptimal opportunists in positions of influence. Crenshaw at least seems to have pulled back from trying to grandstand for the MAGA, and McCarthy basically lacks any strong convictions. They're benign tumors compared to the metastasizing malignancy of an MTG or a Trump or a Kari Lake.
The latter three only speak the language of dominance and destruction. People like that burn the world down with their clumsy neediness and greed.
Democrats don't have a 24/7 fear and rage machine as an information silo.
Sure there are plenty of more conventional alarmist headlines and amen chorus operations, but they're not designed to doomloop viewers into running all day and night the way Fox is.
Personally, I am angry and unforgiving on a variety of subjects. But it's anger aimed at specific people and ideologies and specific malfeasances against the country. And I try to understand, even with the people I'm angry at, what their actual motivations and drives are. There's a difference between a Crenshaw and a Gaetz and an MTG. I think Crenshaw is a turd, but in the right circumstances he could be worked with. Even McCarthy could be worked with, given that he's a spineless wuss.
MTG? I suppose if actual Satan was invading the planet and she somehow didn't end up immediately siding with the infernal we could be on the same side, but I'd watch her every friggin' minute.
It's what I've said for some time now- the Dems represent a small-c conservative minority with a greater stake in the well-being of the country, and tend to think in those terms.
Agree the Dems don't have a similar problem. But I wouldn't go easy on Crenshaw/McCarthy. One knows what Gaetz and MTG really stand for and they have repeatedly shown that they believe whatever they stand for 100%. If Crenshaws and McCarthys are the adults and know right from wrong, shouldn't they be using their power to sideline such crazies. But instead they pander, knowing fully well that the beast is going to consume not only them, but the country at some point. If anything they (McCarthy/Censhaw etc.) are the real problem, not Gaetz and MTG.
I'm not easy on Crenshaw at all. He's a POS who pandered to the MAGA crowd by depicting himself as doing combat against American citizens.
McCarthy is a weak little lickspittle who has no business being a representative, let alone the inheritor by default of one of the most important jobs in the country and worse yet in the line of succession.
But politics will always have slimy, suboptimal opportunists in positions of influence. Crenshaw at least seems to have pulled back from trying to grandstand for the MAGA, and McCarthy basically lacks any strong convictions. They're benign tumors compared to the metastasizing malignancy of an MTG or a Trump or a Kari Lake.
The latter three only speak the language of dominance and destruction. People like that burn the world down with their clumsy neediness and greed.