kemmer wrote:
Oh for God's sake! It was in all the newspapers yesterday--and on the evening news. You must be a Foxbot.
Why do condemn trumpy kids for doing nothing that biden and kerry's kids did? Why does the media ignore that. Why does the media post obammy era pictures of i*****l i*******t kids in cages and then accuse trumpy of that.
Your a hypocrite!
Jonathan Bethune penned in the Federalist back in February 2017 titled: Why Both The Left And Right Are Political Hypocrites And What To Do About It
There can be no meaningful dialogue premised upon shared values if both sides only apply those values when it lets them score points.
What results when a society abandons principles? I do not mean specific principles, I mean the very concept of a principle.
Here are some examples. In the final months of the p**********l campaign, numerous media outlets decried “violent Trump supporters” at political rallies. Today those same outlets apologize for or ignore violence committed by anti-Trump demonstrators.
When President Obama halted acceptance of refugees from Iraq (albeit in a more limited fashion), hardly anyone noticed. Now with President Trump doing it, we see massive backlash and outrage. For many years Obama and the Left, with the approval of the mainstream media, have harshly criticized American foreign policy since the end of World War II. Trump off the cuff says, “You think our country is so innocent?” and he is pilloried by the same talking heads that complimented Obama for his “thoughtfulness.”
This is hypocrisy. It isn’t new. Examples abound on the conservative side as well. The same small government folks who criticized Obama for unilaterally legislating via executive order seem unbothered by Trump’s constitutionally questionable edicts. Many of these same folks looked the other way when Bush did it too.
What is new is the degree of cynicism. The e******n has caused the progressive establishment to become unhinged. Principles have become utterly irrelevant. Power and the agenda they hope to push forward with that power are all that matter to them. Without shared values and principles, substantive political dialogue becomes all but impossible.
The Difference Between a Partisan and an Ideologue
There can be no meaningful dialogue premised upon shared values if both sides only apply those values when it lets them score points. The class of moderately intelligent politically aware people are those most affected by this trend. They have become partisan ideologues.
An ideologue is at least consistent in his belief in specific policies. A partisan openly supports his gang above all else. But a partisan ideologue is worse than both. He is a Machiavellian creature: a supporter of “ends justify the means” approaches to pushing an agenda. The gang must be defended that the agenda might be defended, even when the gang violates core tenets of the agenda. Partisan ideologues are dishonest by nature. Worse still, they often cannot even tell when they are being dishonest.
Here is a simple example of this: the constant refrain that because Trump lost the popular v**e, the majority of the country opposes him.
That Trump lost the popular v**e does not mean that the majority of the country opposes his agenda. Both Trump and Hillary received a minority of the total v**es counted. Note the phrase “v**es counted.” Many hundreds of thousands of cast b****ts are never counted because states frequently don’t bother to finish tallying once certain margins are reached...
How many of them {l*****t} cared when Obama’s drone strikes slaughtered hundreds of civilians in Yemen? How many of them protested when his administration turned Libya and Syria into k*****g fields? How many of them did more than retweet a hashtag from their gated communities and gentrified apartment complexes? Again, the only thing that matters is the agenda. They came out in numbers to protest President Bush for his wars not because they cared about civilians dying in the Middle East, but because they hoped it would hurt him politically and help their agenda.
This does not only apply to l*****ts of course. There were numerous conservative hypocrites during the Obama years, and there will be more into the future. I focus on l*****ts now because they have crossed the line by calling for violence and then lying to cover their tracks. The RINOs and neocons of the Bush years, contemptible as they were, at least had some minimum standards of conduct. The Left, once the champions of free speech during the Cold War, now openly condemn and react violently to it now that they have become the establishment.
http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/16/left-right-political-hypocrites/