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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: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09 2018, @10:08PM (6 children)
Trump's approval numbers rarely reach 40 percent.
Mostly they're down around 33 percent.
In November 2016, 42 percent of registered voters chose None of the above (they stayed home).
That left Killery with 39 percent and Drumpf with 38 percent (and a smattering for write-ins/3rd parties).
The Big 2 managed to find THE 2 WORST CANDIDATES IN HISTORY.
So, NO. It's not the vast majority.
...and The Orange Clown doesn't have a large following.
His faithful followers are a minority of a minority.
(Registered Republicans are about 21 percent of eligible voters and lots of folks who voted for him have seen what he's doing and have turned their backs.)
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Now, if The Fourth Estate would do its fucking job properly and INFORM USAians rather than go for cheap ratings, that would be a move in the right direction.
...but what we have instead is Lamestream Media, pre-filtering the news to suit their corporate paymasters/sponsors.
A return to The Fairness Doctrine would be apt.
(Reagan really fucked up this country.)
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A plug here for the weekly Ralph Nader Radio Hour.
If you don't have a broadcast outlet near you, there's a gratis podcast (which has several minutes more of content).
With Ralph, you'll find stuff that you will never get via Lamestream Media.
Pacifica Radio and other independent media also have day-long content that is more informative than Lamestream Media.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 09 2018, @11:15PM (5 children)
Fuck Ralph Nader - but otherwise your post is pretty damned good. I hate wasting a mod point to bring you back out of oblivion, but some witless wonder decided to bury you with a down mod.
Why don't you register an account, and I won't have to waste time rescuing you from oblivion? Baahhhhh, forget I asked. You'll give me the same meaningless reasons you've given other people in the past.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 10 2018, @03:29AM (4 children)
Ralph has made your life better in dozens of ways and you aren't even grateful.
Been in a car wreck and not have your face or your passenger's smashed on the dashboard|windshield?
Thank Ralph.
Not been sickened|killed by tainted meat or water?
Thank Ralph.
Been bumped from an airline and not told "Screw you. You're on your own"?
Thank Ralph.
Been on a plane and not been choked to death by somebody else's smoke?
Thank Ralph.
Has Ralph Nader Made Your Life Better Today--or Even Saved Your Life? [googleusercontent.com] (Skip down toward the footnotes.) (orig) [blogspot.com]
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 10 2018, @04:31AM (3 children)
Ralph, the crusader who single handedly rescued all of us victims from the worst of all possible worlds - yay Ralph. Forgive me if I can't give it any enthusiasm. It is at least partly Ralph's fault that we have warning labels that are ludicrous. "Don't put chainsaw near your throat, as injury or death may result."
You're giving your boy Ralph all the credit for fresh meat on store shelves, instead of old rotten meat? Like, no one else was able or willing to raise hell about rotten meat? Here, in the US, the most outrageous meat scandals were during the US Civil War. There have been other scandals since, of course, but none so very outrageous. That's because people before and after Ralphie's time have raised hell, and in some cases, caused heads to roll. Don't be giving Ralph all the credit.
Oh - your footnotes.
So, not the lone crusader after all. Just some guy who knew how to capitalize on his associations with people - we call that networking. A guy who could take center stage, and relegate his colleagues to obscurity. The poster boy who took all the credit for the poster maker's work. Got it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 10 2018, @04:57AM (2 children)
Somebody has to step up and be the first to insist on change.
In dozens of cases, when everyone else was saying "Let somebody else do it", it was Ralph that took the bull by the horns.
Ralph is also a masterful organizer.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 10 2018, @06:41AM (1 child)
But he's a leftist! A goddamn progressive!!!!!! Can you not see the truth???
(Score: 2, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday February 10 2018, @07:32AM
I have no idea how the hell Runaway manages to commit the genetic fallacy so often when he only has one helix and it's made of RNA. Surely he must be running out of nucleotides by now.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...