No. Not even close. And neither am I overlooking the nature of that kind of question - the sheer ugliness, as well as dishonesty, of the motives behind your foul posting.tali said:
No, I don't. As you read, explicitly, in my post. So what is your problem - Can't read, or won't read?tali said:
No, they aren't. Your problem here is visible - you don't know any leftwing pundits. You have no idea how the leftwingers have been reacting to Trump's remarks.tali said:
Here's a clue: the same way they have been reacting to Coulter's, Limbaugh's, Hannity's, O'Reilly's, Name-him bigshot Republican evangelical's, Name-him redstate Republican governor's, etc etc etc etc, for forty years and more. What's Trump saying that the leading Republican intellectual voice of the Reagan era we are still in - Rush Limbaugh - hasn't been saying since 1992? It's just a fact - nothing Trump has said is even slightly shocking to anyone who has been listening to the hate radio, "conservative intellectuals", and redstate politicians of the Reagan era. Nothing is even new, in his bombast and truculent repetition of Luntz terms.
The only people who could possibly think that leftwing pundits are shocked by Trump are people who have forgotten the past forty years of Republican media rhetoric - which would be typical of Trump supporters, actually. These are people who can't remember anything their hero and savior W did or said for eight years, after all.
That's one of the problems with being reality based - there is by and large only one reality. We don't even need indoctrination academies (which is lucky, since we can't afford the rightwing think tank archipelago). We end up all thinking alike about stuff, like the fact that Trump is repeating the same talking points and representing the same folks as Limbaugh has since 1992, or that this candidacy of Trump's has been following the trajectory that was obviously most likely given the nature of the Republican base and the corruption of US media, just because we can remember what happened from one year to the next.tali said:
We all know, as a consequence, which way is "up" and who was right about the Iraq War and the difference between shit and shinola (War Chief Donald, of the Tribe Who Rubs Shit In Their Hair, may also know the difference - hard to say). Hive mind, as you put it - as opposed to mindless hive, apparently.
Problem is: Donald is one of the monsters we "lefties" (slightly left, solidly libertarian, in my case) have been trying to warn our country about, starting with Nixon's "Southern Strategy" (the word "Southern" in that term meant ignorant white racial bigot) and picking up urgency with Reagan's ascendency and the closure of the American political discussion (the man was a joke until he won and a disaster afterwards, just like W, but try getting that into the "respectable media"). And so his supporters are a threat. Not the ideologies or positions or any of the stuff the next bigmouth media rep will turn their ADD gripping nose ring toward, but the now organized and violent incommunicado bulk of the subpopulation itself, choosing our dominant representation in the corridors of real power.
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