If you think that "Reichskirche" reference below was over the top, someone sent me this:
If the first day of the real, live, in-person convention was awful, it was nothing compared to the “virtual” convention that the RNC had to dial back on Monday, too. The problem? It turned out that having a live chat stream was a bad idea when a large number of neo-Nazis happen to support your presidential candidate.
“You can live stream the Republican National Convention on the RNC’s official YouTube page, but you can’t chat about it live anymore,” Raw Story reports. “Why, you ask? Because the Republicans have now disabled the live chat window on the page after it got overrun by anti-Semitic Trump supporters. As former Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle gave a speech promoting inroads that Republicans have made with Jewish voters, as well as ripping the Democrats for allegedly being more hostile to Israel, Trump’s alt-right followers flooded the page with anti-Semitic vitriol.”
But are they really racists? Or are they just saying racist things?
ReplyDeleteIf they were candidates of a major political party, especially the POTUS candidate, it would be the latter.
Maybe it's like the "evangelical" young man on the Samantha Bee video who said that we know Trump is moral because his immorality is so fully on display, if it weren't we would know that he was hiding something like the Clintons, though the Clintons have been opened up like no other politicians in American history. It is amazing how like Greens they can sound.
DeleteThere is always a twist in which the Clintons are perfidious beyond all human ability or experience.
DeleteI've come to regard it as a subspecies of racism, where the offending class can do nothing right, no matter what they do: everything is proof of their venality, their inferiority, their foulness.
Twenty five years of the media repeating and magnifying every lie that the Republicans have thought up about the Clintons has a real effect in the world. It is a strategy that the Republicans used with the Kennedys, a means of weakening anyone they figured would be a formidable challenger to them in the future or present. The DC and NYC and Atlanta media went with it whole hog and this year we will see if they can use it to defeat the most lied about of them all - wouldn't you know it would be a woman - to put a total sleaze liar and crook into the presidency. And even if she wins they'll use the residuum of lies in the minds of the stupid and duped to weaken her. Or try to. I think of all of them that Hillary Clinton might turn out to be the one who mastered opposition to that. Of course I see the Sullivan decision as having been of vital importance to that Republican strategy. I think it is strong evidence that the 18th century "enlightenment" kind of liberalism, as opposed to the liberalism which is older and based in Biblical morality, is a danger to democracy whereas the Biblical form is a necessity of democracy. As it turns out the truth will make you free and the lies will enslave you.
DeleteHaley Barbour just told Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff that "half the people polled" thought Hillary should have been indicted after Comey said there were no grounds for it (It's Haley, you know it ain't true).
DeleteWhich is at least the reason we don't run our criminal justice system by plebiscite.
The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose...
ReplyDeleteTrue dat. Now let me refer you to Two Corinthians....friends of mine....
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