I don't know how these crazy liberals get blue checks when everything they post is lies, exaggerations, or huge inconsistencies. First she was against the vaccine when Trump was in office and now she's pushing for "making it rain" vaccine mandates.
- letting criminals run free
- helping our enemies at the expense of America
- getting the Feds involved with the drug trade and pretending they are fighting "the war on drugs"
- selling their souls to China
- letting free terrorist masterminds from Gitmo to go back to the Middle East to cause trouble (treason)
- giving money to our enemies so they can continue to fund terrorism (treason)
- taxing people out the eyeballs, claiming it'll make things better, when all they're doing is pocketing most of that money for themselves behind closed doors
- paying people to sit around on their asses (when they are perfectly capable of working), exploit fatherless kids, get free stuff, and to vote for the party that gave them that free stuff at the expense of working Americans
- treating illegal aliens better than native-born Americans and legal citizens
- using double standards when it comes to the law (usually in favor of one group over another)
Yeah right bullshit. There's plenty of video showing Dems saying not to trust Trump and the vaccine. So many Celebs said they were not going to take the vaccine when Trump was in office.
There's a reason nobody took these fringe groups seriously before social media. In times before the internet, people were smarter and could see these nutbars for what they were: stupid, loud-mouthed idiots who had extreme views about everything, from vegetarianism, to women's rights over-writing men's, to global warming. They were scattered across the country and their platforms were limited to open areas on college campuses with bullhorns to scream at the sky with; whereas now, social media gave them a voice and power they never should have had to start with, and now the DemonRats take them seriously, like what these nutjobs say is word of god. Small wonder people outside the DNC don't take them seriously anymore, with crazies running the asylum like that.
Despite the name-calling and slightly inflammatory rhetoric, that's a really insightful point. Social media gave power to the fringe, dare I say "cooks", which allowed them to influence the weak-minded and weak-willed of the mainstream and pull them into their fold.
Some otherwise quite intelligent and sweet people (some relatives of mine) have been sucked into it.
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Indeed. However, Qanon is low-hanging fruit, and an easy mark, comprised of a far-right element that's always been around, and probably always will be (unfortunately). Social media has given them a loudspeaker, for sure, and allowed them to suck a few more members into their demented group-think fold (including a few politicians). But their influence is minimal.
In fact, they're quite small in number (even if very loud and belligerent) by comparison to the fringe element that’s much more pervasively seeped into the mainstream at the opposite end of the spectrum (escalated further by Trump's antagonistic rhetoric), with such a broad scope of impact and cultural influence that it threatens the core stability of society, replacing classic Liberal ideals of equality amid diversity with counterproductive ideas that bolster segregation and denigration based on reality-defying labels and uncontrollable inborn qualities, a reversion to a medieval worldview that benefits only the powerful. It's a development that would have MLK and JFK rolling in their graves, their legacies stomped on by cognitive juveniles.
Addressing the notion proposed by the OP of this thread, though, I don't find it a cogent theory.
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So you don't agree that the mainstream Left has gone off the rails into fringe territory that's destructive to society?
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I see, no worries. I'm really not defending anyone. I'm calling it as I see it as empirically as possible.
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A pity that we couldn't pull the same tricks on them and pit the different groups of Democraps against each other. They'd be so busy fighting they wouldn't even realize their power was being ripped away.
Leftwing lemming mentality is emotion based. Because of this they are quick to fall for lies. And thus are staunch supporters of the Democrat media/party.
Sure, but I think handouts play a huge role in Democrat support. There are more poor people in the world than successful. There is a huge zombie horde of laziness that loves suckling on the teat of their master. Creates for a huge army of nonskilled dependent idiots.
It’s quite simple to fathom, really. Liberalism is helping your neighbors and the world to make it a better place. Conservatism is relishing in old-school outdated idealogies to keep the world in the dark ages. Easy.
Ok, so why isn't America better then? There are way more liberals in America than conservatives. These days, in these times, unless you're born into one of those Carlton type families you're most likely growing up on liberal views and politically correct ways.
Back in the day we had block parties, you could leave your doors unlocked, and you could definitely let your child walk to school. These days you don't know anything about your neighbors and only people like Seth Rogan can leave their doors unlocked. I remember when parents would let their kids go out with the sandlot crew and all you had to do was make sure you were home for dinner. Now you can't even let your kids walk to school without GPS tracker, facetime on, and armed drones watching from above. Oh, and let us not forget about the kids on leashes.