s: However, can you see how if (in the eyes of this community) you continue to harp on one party without addressing the shortcomings of your own people will be inclined to dismiss you as a hack?
Because it's not the Democrats who've been engaging in massive voter suppression, and I'm sorry, but I'm not going to pretend they have for the sake of "fairness." Nor am I going to close my eyes to such unpleasant fact os history as the Republican's Southern Strategy and their current embrace of barely-even-covert racism.
Sometimes reality is damned unfair.
I am a Democrat. I am also a liberal. I am a Democrat because I consider the Democratic party the better political party. I am a liberal because I consider liberalism the better viewpoint. That means in political discussion, I will favor Democratic politicians over Republican politicians, and liberal policies over conservative.
This does not make me a "hack." I do not attempt to bolster by views with lies, nor do I play word games. My arguments are directly related to conclusions I've drawn based on reality -- not merely on the fact that one side is wearing t-shirts that read "DP" and the other t-shirts that read "RP."
I realize that on many online talk boards, this makes me anomaly. I do not, for instance, a cache of funny pitchurs and personal insults on hand to post when I run out of arguments. No doubt in the eyes of many people here, that's terribly unfair of me.
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Because it's not the Democrats who've been engaging in massive voter suppression, and I'm sorry, but I'm not going to pretend they have for the sake of "fairness." Nor am I going to close my eyes to such unpleasant fact os history as the Republican's Southern Strategy and their current embrace of barely-even-covert racism.
Sometimes reality is damned unfair.
I am a Democrat. I am also a liberal. I am a Democrat because I consider the Democratic party the better political party. I am a liberal because I consider liberalism the better viewpoint. That means in political discussion, I will favor Democratic politicians over Republican politicians, and liberal policies over conservative.
This does not make me a "hack." I do not attempt to bolster by views with lies, nor do I play word games. My arguments are directly related to conclusions I've drawn based on reality -- not merely on the fact that one side is wearing t-shirts that read "DP" and the other t-shirts that read "RP."
I realize that on many online talk boards, this makes me anomaly. I do not, for instance, a cache of funny pitchurs and personal insults on hand to post when I run out of arguments. No doubt in the eyes of many people here, that's terribly unfair of me.
Tough.