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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, Insightful) by bob_super on Friday February 09 2018, @07:36PM (6 children)
Pointing out that some conservatives do not want to follow the GOP when it gets captured by the extreme right is important.
When you only have two parties, and one is going nuts (following a giant economic crisis), it's a threat to the system. Having people who traditionally associated with that party who dare to voice the reality of the extremist slide in their own conservative words is critical.
The top guys call anyone opposing their words/actions a crazy leftist loony commie traitor Dem. When enough indisputably conservative voters start going "Dude, not in my name" is when the extremists can start losing, and all of us can try to get back the system as it was designed to work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09 2018, @10:53PM
USA has only 1 party: The Corporate Party.
The claim of 2 parties is actually 2 factions of the same party: The Neoliberal wing and the Reactionary wing.
Both have sold their souls to the highest bidder.
One wing advocates for "intellectual property" maximalists and the other advocates for Dirty Energy.
USA needs a constitutional amendment that will make all election campaigns publicly funded.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 10 2018, @12:00AM (4 children)
Yeah - what the cowardly owner says. If we have two parties, and you only believe that ONE of them has gone off the deep end - you are most likely part of the problem. Have you not noticed that Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump have worked equally hard to impoverish the American people, to put them under 24/7 surveillance, divide and conquer? Divisiveness is the order of the day, and it has been longer than many voters have been alive.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 10 2018, @03:49AM
Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump have worked equally hard to [keep the usual bunch in complete control]
The brilliant take-no-prisoners comedian Bill Hicks[1] had a routine where he postulated that the 1st thing that happens with a new president is that the CIA gives him a private screening of a video of the JFK assassination, taken from a different vantage point than the Zapruder film.
[1] Bill was so edgy that one of his appearances on Letterman was completely edited out. [google.com]
Bill died of pancreatic cancer at age 32, after which Letterman apologized to Bill's mom and aired the censored act.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday February 10 2018, @04:40AM (2 children)
Yes, and still people think they have a choice when election time comes.
"Let's see: i vote for 'fuck me up the arse' or 'kick me in the head'... hmmm.... i..pick.........ummmm......"
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 10 2018, @04:49AM (1 child)
The trick with those choices is, after four years of being butt-fucked, we tend to forget how bad it was being kicked in the head. So, we vote to be kicked in the head for four or eight years, during which we forget how bad it was being anally raped, so we then elect a rapist.
This election cycle, we opted for the head kicker, and put the rapist on the back burner.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 10 2018, @10:47AM
I think you might have those metaphors backwards... Much more fitting to the personalities.
Oh right, I forgot, Hillary groped you. Jackass.