When Liberals Attack

This is a private message to someone who tried to emotionally rip me to shreds via a public conversation on Facebook. His behavior reminded me of this quote from The Big Lebowski: “you’re not wrong… WALTER… you’re just an asshole.”

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I private messaged you because you say that you tried to state it politely, and I didn’t think so. You’re bringing emotion into logic as we speak by trying to agitate me instead of trying to understand me. And that is why the Left and the Right don’t get along in a nutshell. The Right thinks that if they shake their fists hard enough, the country will suddenly *want* to go back to the 1950’s. They have a hateful, exclusionary platform that basically says you can either be like us or we’ll mow you down eventually. The Left is trying their best to respond to absolutely unnecessary attacks, but sometimes they take the low road because there’s absolutely no way to compete with angry and irrational without getting angry and irrational. The Republicans have a terrible message and image. Rich fat cats that have all the money and manage to get people of below average intelligence to believe that they will be better off if they just hand their money over to them for safekeeping, and then the market tanks and the fat cats still get to keep their multi-million dollar bonuses while the people they screwed are living paycheck to paycheck. They win by convincing you that gay people, atheists, and immigrants are coming to get you, and they operate on fear. They have people’s attention because they can package their hate and sell it. They advocate NEVER aborting a child, but aren’t known for giving all the starving children we already have bottles and blankets.

The Democrats have no idea where they’re going or what they’re doing, but they come by it honestly because the Republicans won’t pass anything they write, anyway. They just believe that they are so star-spangled awesome as they completely dismantle every piece of safety net that exists for poor people, and they convince people of all socioeconomic strata that this is only for their benefit.And that’s how you argue a point without calling anyone names.