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In reply to the discussion: Fuck Chris Hedges. [View all]TheWraith
(24,331 posts)That is the net result if we get a Republican win in the Presidency next year. He's not just "stating his opinion." He is propagandizing for the Republicans, trying to portray the election as something other than a choice between the good guys and the enemies of civilization, in the hopes of confusing some low information liberals into believing it's okay to vote third party. If I got up and published an opinion column that was a long winded way of saying that there's no difference between police officers and child molesters, that might be "my opinion" too, but that doesn't make it either somehow automatically valid, or an acceptable opinion to have. To consider it more valid because it's his opinion is, to paraphrase an old quote, to fall prey to the fallacy that democracy means his ignorance is just as good as our facts.