Same here. I've never posted on Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, etc. I do have a Twitter and LinkedIn page but very, very rarely post on either. I have a Facebook page and use it to keep in touch with friends and relatives, but I don't take the chain posts or right-wing crap on it very seriously. The vast majority of what I do read and post is here, actually.
He knows this. But it takes away from his "both sides are bad" mantra.
There's zero basis for that sinking feeling. I think you're reading the polls too much and psyching yourself out. Read Ezra Klein's column in the Times today.
100% of men and women who die survived not only the previous 4 years but the previous 14. And yet, despite that track record, they die. Get it?
I don't think it's a tangent. Part of explaining liberal shock in 2016 is understanding that the average liberal has an exceedingly selective view of decency, a point underscored by recent efforts to rehabilitate Dick Cheney and, over the years, any number of detestable Republicans who just happened to think Trump too gauche and too dumb to elect. Back in the good ol' days, when the Republican establishment wanted to unnecessarily murder hundreds of thousands of people, they had the common decency to couch it in rhetoric of freedom and democracy, to win Democratic support, and to make it sound intellectually and morally respectable.
I think you overstate the rehabilitation bit. It's more along the lines that if even a skunk can smell that shit, something really stinks. That's my take on it, anyway.
You may very well be right, though Michelle Obama seems to be fine and dandy with George W Bush, who wrecked the world on a number of fronts.
I don't like the man and what he did, either. I did feel like he was largely a puppet and don't know him as a person. They both share what the pressure of being in the White House is like so I can get it. Not my business, anyway. I think we all have had dubious friendships.
I think Bush also is somewhat contrite about it all, which, I guess ymmv but seems genuine to me. That doesn’t much help hundreds of thousands of dead iraqis I realize.
George W Bush is not a dubious friend. My most dubious friends have combined to kill exactly zero people. Compared to my most dubious friend, George W Bush is a monster. Puppet or not, he co-signed a disastrous, illegal war that killed hundreds of thousands of people. And Bush's "aw shucks" personality has no bearing on the issue.
Again, my analysis was why were the great majority of liberals so shocked by Trump's victory in 2016. I mentioned that if you wanted to argue that they shouldn't have been shocked or that their view of decency was flawed, then by all means do so. And that is what you are doing here. But that is not what I was posting about. If you wish to continue arguing in this direction then by all means go ahead, but as I have no interest in arguing that topic I'll leave it to others to debate it.
You realize that Obama, as president, authorized the deaths of a whole lot of people as well, right? Honestly, authorizing the deaths of folks is part of being US president in nearly all cases.
Obama belongs in hell with Bush too, though probably on a plusher level with less cock-based torture.
Is there anyone involved in government who you don't find largely or completely compromised?
Since the federal government pursues such an aggressive foreign policy, state governorships are probably the last chance for executive-level decency in the United States.
Please tell me you don't really believe someone can serve as POTUS without making life and death calls as a relatively regular part of the job.
