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Small town Republican thoughts on refuting the alt-right. In The Republican Journal:
I want to make one thing very clear: The Waldo County Republican Committee absolutely, unequivocally condemns Nazi and KKK ideologies and actions, as well as any other kind of bigotry, and we encourage all of our voters and the community at large to do the same.
For fellow Republicans out there, worry not, we don't like Antifa's ideology and actions either, but we need to clean our own house; we need to worry about our own responsibilities.
Such honesty, and clarity of thought!
The most dangerous part of politics today is identity politics, trolling, pathos and a severe lack of critical thinking. You cannot defeat the insidious hatred of bigoted politics with more hate. By doing so, you morph the conversation away from policy and ideology to silly label syntax, eventually devolving completely into back and forth verbal gymnastics. Make no mistake, these trolls are ready for you as you stoop to their level, and they beat you up with mountains of experience.
So what do we do? Very simple. Stay neighborly by controlling your reaction. Seek out those with whom you disagree, try to understand them first, and politely offer your counter argument.
And it looks like the Republicans in Maine, if not in Illinois, are rejecting the alt-right.
The way to defeat Mr. Kawczynski is not by attacking him, but by attacking his ideas. Here are some flaws in his thinking: His immigration ideas are antithetical to the Maine Republican party platform, a section of which states, "We support the assimilation of legal immigrants into Maine society."
Kawczynski's ideas stand in contrast to Maine history and culture; in fact, it is white folks with racist ideologies who pose the greatest threat to Maine's foundation, not other races of people.
Another brilliant tidbit:
Ultimately, all you have to do is walk outside with your eyes open in this state to see that Kawczynski's fearmongering about "white genocide" is completely laughable.
Entire guest column is well worth a read.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 10 2018, @11:18PM (2 children)
Vote every damned democrat and republican out of office, and send some fresh blood to Washington to clean the mess up. Clean up the Supreme Court, and TELL those 9 dumb bastards that the citizen takes priority over the state. And elect a responsible president to clean up the executive branch.
Sounds like some damned fantasy story, huh?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday February 11 2018, @03:24AM (1 child)
Yeah, it does. Sounds, though, like if you wanted this, you ought to have voted Sanders in the '16 primary. Because he's the only one of them who's even close to "clean."
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday February 12 2018, @08:37PM
I voted for Paul. At the end of the day Sanders still sold out his morals by backing Hillary and giving her his money. Then got a sweet sweet vacation home and sports car out of it. Now there is the whole trial about his wife and him abusing his position to secure loans for her employer, it is of course all alleged but interesting. I work with a lot of Bernie guys who were completely devastated, and still are, that he turned on them.
If someone like Democrat Peter Defazio ran for executive office I might just support him as he seems to be an honest character. Although I am pretty libertarian, I have voted for him a number of times and will do so in the future.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam