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In reply to the discussion: The Dumpster Fire of Obama's Moral Authority [View all]stupidicus
(2,570 posts)I would only suggest that you include wording -- in the case of an attempted pile-on as seen here -- to reflect or support the fact that they are really little more than a "reacharound" so to speak that attempt to provide some pleasure to offset the pain of having nothing meaningful or substantive to say.
It's this same process writ large that allows the modern rightwingnut (the ego preservation measure known as denial) to get over or to be unbothered by the fact that they've largely individually and collectively been on the wrong side of history in this country since its founding, and spectacularly so in recent decades. A cult can't survive without it.
If there's one thing that has really been striking to me since the start of my participation here, it's how similar the debating tactics are between righties and lefties. I suppose that is to be expected, since a lacking of intellectual heft and integrity severely limits the options available when the known facts in their totality work against you.