The Koch Brothers Have Gotten Much, Much Richer Under Obama

[byronius]

37. Oh, I support Bernie.

I do not, however, condone Hillary-hatred or poorly-reasoned causal links purporting to show that Barack Obama is a Traitor. I'm no glassy-eyed ideological zombie; I just know that it's a logical fallacy to argue that Obama serves as a willing lackey for the Koch brothers because their wealth increased during his presidency. Such bullshit. It divides and weakens, and is akin to the purity tests I see being imposed by the less-rational Bernie supporters, i.e., 'no one is as as liberal as I am because I ruthlessly judge everyone and everything who is not me as being devoted to evil.' Y'know, those people. Often, in actual reality far from the electronic world, I have found the most judgmental Hyper-Liberals to be clueless sociopaths with destructive personal lives.

As a vegan, I see it all the time in fellow vegans. Absolute purism, sneering judgment, bitter accusations of bad intent directed at other vegans who do not, as a rule, hate everyone who is not a vegan. And I find all of that to be bullshit as well. Self-defeating bullshit.

It's weak-minded. We're supposed to be smarter than that. It does not make Bernie sound more viable to 'prove' that every other Democrat in the history of time has betrayed their cause. In fact, it hurts him. Specious absolutism is supposed to be a right-wing phenomenon; clearly it is a standard-issue primate trait.