The time for polite dialogue with the political right is over

[G_j]

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Supreme Court hypocrisy, effort to infiltrate progressive NC groups ought to be the last straws

It should have been obvious to anyone paying attention as far back as the fall of 2000. During those grim days and weeks of raw and cynical political thievery that followed the Bush v. Gore presidential election, the modern, extreme, win-at-all-costs American political right fully announced itself as a movement with no time for quaint niceties like fairness, precedent and the rule of law.

It was at that moment that progressives should have learned the lesson that all the right’s talk of “dialogue” and “civility” was a mere ploy – a tactic to provide a distraction and a cloak of respectability while the movement’s media talking heads, “think tank” denizens, corporate-funded lobbyists and elected officeholders did whatever it took to rewrite the national political contract.

The lessons kept coming at a rapid pace in the years that followed – from the lies and deceptions surrounding the invasion of Iraq to the racism-fueled efforts to undermine the Obama presidency before it even began, to the preposterous blockade of Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, to the movement’s full flowering in the serial dishonesty of the Trump White House.

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And still, through it all, many caring and thinking progressives continued to naively fall for the right’s supposed desire for a “contest of ideas.” When respectable institutions convened confabs and retreats in which conservative extremists who spent most of their days dishing up red meat and fueling paranoid conspiracy theories to delusional audiences were allowed to launder their rhetoric and feign responsibility, progressives dutifully showed up, shook hands and smiled.

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[Yeehah]

1. It's like playing nice with nazis

We need to understand the current repulican party seeks to install a dictatorship, with the window dressing of a democracy.

[G_j]

3. Exactly

A moral compass, or a love of democracy do not even exist for them.

[chriscan64]

2. It is a fundamentalist religion.

It's akin to reasoning with a suicide bomber. We're playing chess and they're playing knock the board over.