this is one of many propaganda threads. A lot are pointed at Ted Cruz, but not all. You keep repeating over and over again on the thread that candidate X is a ______ (fill in the blank). You say it over and over again down the thread, with new agitators adding more colorful adjectives as the posts pile up. Not just a _____, he’s a slimey ______ blank. He’s always been a phoney _____. Not only that but he’s a dirtbag, scumbag, sleazeball, nazi, lying, underhanded, treacherous _______.
And so it goes. Left behind is any rational discussion of whether the so-called lie was a lie in the first place, or, as in this case, a repetition of a news item without carefully fact checking. Lying? No. Carelessness. Yes. But it’s too late for that. And that is how a good man’s reputation is shredded, annihilated, obliterated and scoured from the public mind. Sickening.
I don’t know about others, but I haven’t used any of this kind of name-calling, vilifying, personal attacks on any candidate. I’ve questioned repeatedly inconsistencies in Donald Trump’s record and for that, I’ve been showered with the same kind of shit-storm of invective as Ted Cruz receives on these threads. I never said Trump is a lying, scumbag, filthy weasel, etc. or anything like it. It doesn’t matter. If you oppose, or even question Donald Trump’s candidacy, you are persona non grata. I have to admit, as a student of history, that the tone is similar to the totalitarian regimes of the last century: any question of the party or the leader or the regime and you are not just disagreeable-you must be utterly destroyed.
Very well said.