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In reply to the discussion: Sanders supporters took over the Nevada Democratic Party. It's not going well. [View all]The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)It can be illustrated by the problem of criticizing religious radicals of the sort who pray for President Biden's death. Call such people out as what they are, vile and evil creatures, and even on left forums one can count on people to take up cudgels against 'bashing Christians'. People like, say, Turner or Dore or Joy Grey, are no more of a kind with the general run of people who support enacting progressive ideas into policy and law than are critters like Jefferies and White and such of a kind with an ordinary soul who considers themselves a Christian, in belief and practice. Calling out the one is not calling out the other, and ought not to be treated as if it is. Opposing, even denouncing and condemning the sort of people so sunk in the old 'not a dime's worth of difference' attitude they become in effect a left auxiliary of the christo-fascists, is not an attack on progressives, and certainly not speaking out against progressive policies. It is, rather, an attack on people whose activities hamper instead of aid enacting progressive policies most every Democrat supports, and damn few Republicans do.