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It's Time for Democrats to Look in the Mirror
Real Clear Politics ^ | 16 Jun, 2017 | Anneke E. Green

Posted on 06/16/2017 7:03:17 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Nancy Pelosi made a startling admission on the floor of the House Wednesday after Speaker Paul Ryan spoke about the shooting attack on Republican members of Congress and staff at a baseball practice: “To my colleagues, you’re going to hear me say something you’ve never heard me say before: I identify myself with the remarks of the speaker.” She was making a light-hearted reference to how unusual it is for her to agree with the leader of the Republican majority. She looked around as she delivered the line, expecting a laugh.

It would be better if she instead looked in a mirror and considered how a culture of vilification she helped to create may have motivated that morning’s attacker. James T. Hodgkinson, the man who died after a shootout with Alexandria, Va., and Capitol Police officers, has been described by neighbors, acquaintances and at least one friend as a “mellow” guy who was politically active but in control. He campaigned for presidential contender Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary. But somewhere along the line, his outlook started to go off the rails and he joined various anti-GOP Facebook groups, including "Terminate the Republican Party"; "The Road to Hell Is Paved With Republicans"; and "Join the Resistance Worldwide!!"

It’s easy to see how Hodgkinson’s anger at Republicans might have been fed by a steady diet of toxic hyperbole dished up by progressives. It’s trendy now to frame disagreement with Trump’s agenda as “resistance.” The term evokes the French Resistance in World War II that carried out sabotage and assassinations.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 115th; hodgkinson; leftism; violence

1 posted on 06/16/2017 7:03:18 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

May the US leftists get the same reward as France’s Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre.


2 posted on 06/16/2017 7:05:30 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Blood sucking vampires can use a mirror?


3 posted on 06/16/2017 7:06:43 PM PDT by null and void ( The Flat Earth Society claims they have members all around the globe!)
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To: MtnClimber

No can do, that would require them to bathe!


4 posted on 06/16/2017 7:09:59 PM PDT by null and void ( The Flat Earth Society claims they have members all around the globe!)
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To: MtnClimber
somewhere along the line, his outlook started to go off the rails and he joined various anti-GOP Facebook groups, including "Terminate the Republican Party"; "The Road to Hell Is Paved With Republicans"; and "Join the Resistance Worldwide!!"

Does anyone know if those facebook groups are still allowed to operate? Is motherzuckerberg still allowing their hate on the site that he stole from the Winklevoss twins?

5 posted on 06/16/2017 7:21:05 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( It's time to classify progressives as a hate group. ))))
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To: MtnClimber

Progs are true belliever fanatics completely incapable of looking at themselves objectively.


6 posted on 06/16/2017 7:26:41 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: MtnClimber

They’re a bunch of haters spreading hate, then pretending to be upset when someone acts on it.


7 posted on 06/16/2017 7:36:06 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: MtnClimber

The Party of Hate produces haters, violence, armed protestors, welfare cheats, prison inmates and illegal aliens.

What’s to like?


8 posted on 06/16/2017 7:42:11 PM PDT by onyx (Donate Monthly ~ Join 300 Club!)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Progs are true belliever fanatics completely incapable of looking at themselves objectively.

The progs chanted "Bush is Hitler". Hitler was a national socialist and the progs are socialists. What the hell are they saying? Are they saying Bush is like them?

9 posted on 06/16/2017 7:50:22 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
Leftists invariably accuse others of doing what they themselves are doing.
10 posted on 06/16/2017 7:54:44 PM PDT by null and void ( The Flat Earth Society claims they have members all around the globe!)
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To: MtnClimber

Why? What would they see? Only how good they are and not the evil they really are. Would be a waste of their time.


11 posted on 06/16/2017 8:07:21 PM PDT by mulligan
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To: null and void
Leftists invariably accuse others of doing what they themselves are doing.

Is that you Rush? ;-}

12 posted on 06/16/2017 8:11:35 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: null and void

In Psych 101, it’s called projection.


13 posted on 06/16/2017 8:32:59 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: unixfox
No, but I'm *blushing*

I've learned from the best...

14 posted on 06/16/2017 8:35:42 PM PDT by null and void ( The Flat Earth Society claims they have members all around the globe!)
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To: originalbuckeye

Not quite projection, but more a cynical effort to redirect and/or dilute blame.

After all, ‘Everybody does it...’


15 posted on 06/16/2017 8:37:23 PM PDT by null and void ( The Flat Earth Society claims they have members all around the globe!)
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To: MtnClimber
Mirrors are expensive.


16 posted on 06/17/2017 2:17:47 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: MtnClimber

No. It’s too late for that. They are “irredeemable “.


17 posted on 06/17/2017 4:39:46 AM PDT by Brilliant
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has been described by neighbors, acquaintances and at least one friend as a “mellow” guy who was politically active but in control.

That is completely wrong, the media national media has distorted him to NOT be a loon. He had multiple legal issues and was described as “an angry little man, with a chip on is shoulder” by his own lawyer. Another lawyer described him as “He was right and you were wrong” type of person.


18 posted on 06/17/2017 5:06:29 AM PDT by Cyclone59 (Where are we going, and what's with the handbasket?)
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Democrats only care about themselves...self centered, childish, arrogant, and selfish rats. They could care less about the best for Americans and more about their party...it is always about their party winning and they don’t care about the cost or consequences.


19 posted on 06/17/2017 5:36:24 AM PDT by oust the louse (The LEFT has no principles, it only has goals! They are the party of death and taxes.)
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The person who stole Facebook censors Conservatives, but hate groups from the left are fine. The MF is a bastard.


20 posted on 06/17/2017 6:30:12 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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