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Republicans…
god fucking help us all
American politicians in general**
NOPE. I gotta call bullshit on your blithe “both sides“ implication
Believe me, absolutely no one, and I mean no one, is calling Democrats perfect little angels—most certainly not the GOP-lite conservadems™ in mostly red states—but if you want to suggest that ALL politicians “generally” say such lunacy, specifically like that depicted above, then you gotta back that shit up and show me some concrete, contemporary examples (and no, Fox News, Breitbart and any other similar rightwing “news” sites don’t count)
Far right Republican politicians seem to be allergic to even the most basic of facts and they’re ridiculously anti-science…it’s almost like they’re legally required to say the most asinine, untrue shit they can think of whenever they’re within three feet of a mic
FOR EXAMPLE:Michele Bachmann (R-IA): The founding fathers worked tirelessly on the constitution until slavery was no more
FOR EXAMPLE:Joni Ernst (R-IA): We have an apathetic president, Obama is just standing back and letting things happen, he is reactive rather than proactive. With Ebola, he’s been very hands off
reporter: What should he have done about Ebola? One person in America has Ebola.
Joni Ernst: OK, you’re the press and you’re giving me your “opinion”
Btw: that wasn’t an “opinion,” as only one person in America had it at the time (and a grand total of two people have contracted Ebola in the U.S.)
AND ON RAPE:Clayton Williams (R-TX): Rape is kinda like the weather. If it’s inevitable, relax and enjoy it
Paul Ryan (R-WI): Rape is just another method of conception
There’s tons more of examples like this and the ones depicted above, and 99.99% of the time, it’s a Republican saying such things
It’s lazy thinking to engage in the false equivalence that “politicians in general” say such garbage. Accepting that blatant falsehood as fact only increases voter apathy, which in turn decreases voter turnout, which ultimately only helps Republicans
Anyone always blindly insisting that it’s ”both political parties” doing x, y, or z doesn’t show that they’re being fair & even handed, and it doesn’t show keen understanding of politics…it shows quite the opposite
If actual facts happen to demonstrate that one side is disproportionately saying and doing terrible, draconian things, then it isn’t your job to charge in and utter the magic words, “both sides” or otherwise suggest that both parties are doing it equally, in some misguided attempt at fairness or equality
SN: for those who still get liberalism confused with conservatism, don’t bother trying to catch a free derail here —you’re wrong
Look…the Wall Street/conservadem™ wing of the Democratic Party is getting further and further away from their core liberal, progressive tenants of economic populism & protecting the public commons, so there’s actually tons to legitimately criticize them for, but things like anti-sience, climate-change denying and pro-rapist sentiments are beliefs that neither “all politicians” nor “both sides” have in equal amounts. Those are all prerequisite traits for Republican politicians. And that’s a fact
