Both parties go that route
[QUOTE=RandomTask101;3936810]The real issue with Trump and Trumpers is a bending of the truth or outright denial of facts. Anything that goes against their agenda or insults their hubris is labelled as "fake news" and the argument is dismissed before even being considered. To be clear, this also happens within the extreme left-wing factions, but as this alt-right faction current maintains power, they are the most dangerous.
I hope we can all return to a civil, and united society rather than devolving into these tribes under an us. Vs. Them mentality. We need better leadership in order to do this.[/QUOTE]
I agree with the synopsis at the end, but liberals are just as nasty. Basically, all the loud mouths on either side are the same in my opinion. I mean how hypocritical were all the libs with picket signs calling Kavsaugh a rapist. Yet all the women that accused their hero, Bill Clinton of the same, were baseless accusations? It will be nasty from both sides. Getting nastier every year. Its all a sham anyway. Deciding between Democrats and Republicans (especially at the federal level) is like choosing between coke and pepsi. I just hope that one day a candidate or administration will just tell it like it is and let the votes fall where they may. Trump is a bafoon, Obama was a puppet, and W had a good heart, but surrounded himself with idiots. Clinton and Reagan were the best of my lifetime. Why? Because they gravitated to the center, were most of the reasonable population resides. Don't drink the red or thr blue koolaid, stick to beer or Whiskey.
Agent Orange & Suppressing Black Votes
Not long after losing its second presidential election to Barack Obama, the GOP, so the story goes, operated on itself. Like a lung-cancer patient declaring that it's time to quit smoking, the Republican National Committee declared in a 2013 'autopsy' report that "the Republican Party must be committed to building a lasting relationship with the African-American community year round, based on mutual respect and with a spirit of caring. " A few months after that --in the wake of more than a dozen states pushing through fresh new laws to make it more difficult for African-American & Hispanic people to vote--the party crossed another Rubicon by nominating Donald Trump for president, a birther with an unquestioned record of racial discrimination and bigoted rhetoric. This was not so much hypocritical as it was suicidal.
An aging, nearly 90 percent white GOP cannot carry its candidates to electoral victory on a platform that revels in the consequences of unvarnished racism--such as Charlottesville--or the terror of family separation and placing babies in cages, IMHO. How does one maintain such a model for electoral success in a browning America? For those Republicans who indulge and silently benefit from it, voter suppression provides the leeway.
There is fear underlying this strategy, however. Trump regularly defecates on political norms, but he and the party that empowers him share a commonality. All too many Republicans excuse his abuses as they commit their own, suppressing votes and embracing the very last strands dangling off of the white nationalist fringe. Much like a white person saying the word "nigger"with the hard are'aloud in mixed company, they are free to do so as long as they expect consequences.