Michelle, the Oscars and Autocratic Trappings

[Summer Hathaway]

138. I could add to the litany

of how utterly ridiculous your post is - but I'm rather late to that party, and others have already done so.

However, there is something I can't help but notice about the discussion on DU.

For a while, it was: "If you don't agree with me, you're not a true progressive (TM)."

That quickly evolved into: "If you don't agree with me, it means you're a DLCer, a Third Wayer, a corporatist," etc.

Now we have comments like this showing up regularly:

"And anyone who has the slightest capacity for thinking beyond naked partisanship (and celebrity worship) should get this. Seriously... isn't anyone capable of principled thinking???"

In other words: "If you don't agree with me, you have no principles," or the other popular one of late, "If you don't agree with me, you have no moral compass."

And now you go a step further, insinuating that anyone who was not outraged by Michelle's appearance at the Oscars is a celebrity-worshipper, who lacks the capacity to think beyond your interpretation of what constitutes "naked bipartisanship".

And BTW, I would not have had a negative reaction to Laura Bush appearing at the Oscars either. So you can add that to your little list of things that demonstrate a lack of principles.