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In reply to the discussion: The manufactured outrage that purports to be legitimate criticism of Hillary is pathetic [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)you are further assuming agreement with.
I also think (assuming your apparent parsing of motives is on target which I am beyond dubious of) you are underestimating the damage the validating the right wing extremist that mediocre New Dealism is radical fringe stuff AND (whether intentional or not) moderating a lot of far right philosophy by framing only the bleeding edge of the neoBircher Teabaggers as extreme right.
How can you see the entire package of tactics can only move the functional political spectrum to the fairly hard right, setting up essentially Thatcherism as the leftward end of the acceptable spectrum and extending the right way out deep into insane?
How is it helping anyone but the damn TeaPubliKlans to continuously validate the TeaPubliKlan worldview? Where are our "bedrock values" even expressed much less advanced in this way?
For another talk about previous politics and personal experience and seem to miss we are talking about a DLC cofounder, friend of The Family, John McShame, and the Bushes, an ever espoused part of a "package deal" with Bill Clinton, close relationships with bankers, has fucking Kissinger on speed dial, is proudly on film psychopathicly cackling about "we came, we saw, he died", we saw her about break her fucking neck to get to Obama's right on arms for Syrian rebels, was speachafying to whip for invading Iraq, and hell since she pushed a fucking flag burning bill I see little reason to expect her to be a voice of reason on dragnet surveillance and the shredding of our enumerated rights either.
Which brings me back to my original question about these common "bedrock principles" that was your previous focus but I'm missing the connection to that theme in your response.