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In reply to the discussion: The confederate flags are a nice touch... [View all]The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)I consider it useful in moving the middle of the road and the undecided. I have no objection to lying, particularly to lies that do reflect an actual truth --- that these wretches are treasonous scum who mean harm to our people and our country. One presumes from your presence here that you have already made up your mind which side you are on, and so no propaganda is aimed at you, and you are not being propagandized in any way. I am well aware the 'nutters next door...the trumpers, the anti vaxxers, the local members of the gop' comprise those little penny-packet protests, and have no more respect for them than they have for me, less perhaps, put the matter to the test. The overlap of these creatures with outright neo-confederates, even flagrant nazis, is more than sufficient for agit-prop work, and certainly no injustice is done to them. They deserve whatever shaming and detestation comes their way. The point of the exercise is not to change their minds, it is to rouse disgust, even hatred, towards them in the minds of others. Politics, as they say, ain't bean-bag. It is the practice of war short of actual violence. People who ignore, or neglect, or forget this lose elections.
"The difference between an election and Waterloo is the difference between a pitched battle and the bloodless surrender of a force outnumbered in the field."
"Defeat of a hated enemy is something to be for."