So... Since The GOP Has Become Batshit Racist And Crazy... We Are Not Allowed To Criticize The Pres?

[Maedhros]

56. Here's the thing: Republican criticisms of the President are wildly irrational -

"He's not a citizen - he's from Kenya!!!"

"He's a Sekrit Muslim!!! Sharia Law!!!"

"He's a Socialist - and a Fascist at the same time!!!"

"BENGHAZI!!!"

The non-stop droning of the Right Wing about, essentially, nothing but their own bizarre delusions and projections, inures the President to reasonable criticism. The effect is that he can actually DO outright crazy shit - like put U.S. citizens on secret kill lists, swarm Africa with Spec Ops troops, ramp up blanket surveillance of ordinary Americans - and nobody from the Right speaks up, because these actions fit into their view of what is acceptable.

But Democratic partisans see criticisms of these policies in the context of the manufactured batshit crazy ones, and reflexively attack the person making the criticism under the assumption that the goal behind it is the same as that behind the Right's criticism - i.e. that it is a spurious, personal attack on the President solely for Republican partisan reasons.

One must endeavor to rise above the partisan rancor in order to see the playing field for what it is.

ON EDIT: This behavior is on display below, in the post titled "You're welcome to go to Freepland and criticize all you want." The equation of criticism with Freeper motives.