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In reply to the discussion: In case you were wondering, I AM NOT A FREEPER. [View all]cui bono
(19,926 posts)They are playing into the team mentality where no matter what "our" captain does, it's right, and no matter what the other team's captain/players do or believe, it's wrong. It's so simple for them, but the only way it can be that simple is with simple thinking. No room for nuance. Also, I don't know if it was like this with Clinton, but with Obama it really seems that way too many people just defend him blindly and feed us the sentiment of the Bush line, "you're either for us or against us". Oops, they are doing what they don't like us to do.
And funnily enough they don't even see they are doing the same thing in agreeing with Republicans in the case of the ACA, but they justify it because Obama got it passed. And now Obama gets a pass even though he passed a Republican health care plan. If you or I had said we should pass that plan we would have been labeled with some sort of insulting conservative name.
Even the NSA warrantless wiretapping. They claim it's fine because it's legal now. Okay, but it's only legal because Obama pushed for it to be legal. When BushCo did it no one liked it.
Hypocrisy. That's what it is. And it comes from a lack of critical thinking and subscribing to politics of personality over politics of substantive policy. And they brought the team mentality into the Dem Party and are simply being divisive. It really makes you wonder why they are doing it since it is only furthering the shift to the right. Is it on purpose?