GOP Fretting About Monster It & FOX Created. Why?

[Philly]

That wasn't what Galt's data showed at all. It showed we've become more polarized.

[Indy]

Yes, polarized between what, Philly?

And in that polarization, what does one side always present as the enemy of America?

[Philly]

[John Galt]

yeah it wasn't "the left" indy, it's both sides becoming more polarized

the other boogeyman of course is the ominous "global warming"

[Indy]

Right. Global warming as hoax. All these scientists, and NASA, and the Pentagon, and insurers, and meteorologists, and not just here but worldwide, have engaged in a massive... hoax... because they're slaves to ultra-liberals ("the radical left") in the United States. And they've all willingly participated in this conspiracy/hoax... for what again? Oh right: Because Liberals. Or something.

Nothing is a credibility-shredder more than climate change denial. Back to your point on polarization--there wouldn't even be any denial were it not for, yup, The Party, who politicized it on purpose because Biiiig Energy and polluters own them. Even though it's a suicide pact.

It's not "both sides" becoming more polarized, it's The Party that's gone completely radical and plutocratic, and pulled the entire country to the right where now even being a moderate is considered by them to be surrender, or a slur.

Or, where something like climate change denial is embraced because it's allegedly "liberal" and we can't ever bow to the infidels.

[Philly]

Which party? You could argue that both have become more plutocratic and pulled the country to the right since the 1980s.

[exploited]

Indy, the Clinton's have been the heart of the Democrat party for decades, and they are social conservatives and economic neoliberals. Basically exactly what the Republicans were for the past 50 years, until populism really started to take hold.

Your hypothesis that people have been trained to hate Democrats is stupid, and wrong. People have been trained to hate the other. This is why you bark like a rabid dog about George W. Bush, even though the Democrats supported almost every f**k up thing he did. You're a brainwashed partisan who can't even recognize that his behaviour is exactly the same as the guy who watches Fox News religiously... just in defense of the other side.

[Indy]

[Philly]

It's funny that ex said there's a hatred of the other and then the first thing you point out is that he's Canadian.

[Indy]

Which makes zero sense, .

I pointed out that only somebody who doesn't live in this country would claim that the entire right-wing media machine hasn't been dangling "The Left" as public enemy #1 for decades. America-haters. Commies. Capitalism-haters. Rich-haters. Pro-terrorist. Soft on terror. Blame America first. Cop-haters. The list goes on and on. Sounds like a Sarah Palin speech. Coincidence?

Nope.