You're making a hive mind argument, here.
I'm sure you folks would agree I'm a massive lefty, right? Well, I've never accused all right-wingers of being Nazis, or KKK members. Not even of all of them being alt-righters. The ONLY connections I've drawn between Trump and Hitler were that their rhetorical styles share some disturbing similarities, and I clarified that in that comparison, I was talking about early-30's Hitler, not full-blown Fuhrer-running-the-Holocaust Hitler. Because the comparison wasn't meant to imply that Trump is an anti-semite or wants to start a holocaust, but to underscore the danger of beating the drum of nationalism and fear through demagoguery.
So I clearly don't fit the hive mind you're claiming exists, and haven't ever claimed such a hive mind in return. It's all in your head.
Probably because Democrats aren't real leftists. America doesn't have a real liberal party, one that actually represents the left and a liberal ideology, at least not one of any significant importance. That is the cause and effect of a two party majority system as well. The Democrats trying to identify themselves as liberals doesn't make them liberals. Aside from their often foolish stances on a couple of common liberal ideologies, most of their policies are centrist at best. And yet, Clinton's campaign and the people who voted for her had so little to do with economics and focused so hard on the fact that she was a woman, and one with scandals to her name at that which so many of her voters and the DNC both blatantly ignored, was the reason why the Democrats made her the presidential candidate. If they really wanted to stick to true liberal values, Bernie Sanders would have been their candidate. Identity politics is exactly why she got the nomination, not because of her policies. The Democrats foolishly thought they could win the election because "it's Trump" and "first female president" were more important reasons than actual policies and the quality of the candidate.
So, what's wrong with comparing Hitler to Obama, a man who ran on a populist platform of changing a broken country, if it's not about marring a person and just describing a rise to power?
Bonus points. It looked really fucking stupid to call Trump Hitler for ANY reason after complaining about Obama being called Hitler. It's just as stupid as deeming pictures comparing Obama to a primate as bad after 8 years of Bush being a chimpanzee and Trump now being an orangutan.
Because he didn't share any of those same troubling threads in his rhetoric.
Only if you're somehow incapable of seeing the obvious historically racist overtones of using that kind of comparison with a black man, neither of which exists for the other two individuals.Bonus points. It looked really fucking stupid to call Trump Hitler for ANY reason after complaining about Obama being called Hitler. It's just as stupid as deeming pictures comparing Obama to a primate as bad after 8 years of Bush being a chimpanzee and Trump now being an orangutan.
I don't see how this could apply to US politics, yes to identity politics but "the left" in the US seemed more of a "Third-way"-type of left-wing that has more or less abandoned left-wing ideas on economics already.
I find it applies to some extent to Swedish politics, which has to do with the way coalitions are formed. Our current coalition since 2014 is left-wing, however I feel that the main ruling party (and whom received the most votes) has become too complaisant. However identify politics is definitely not as extreme as it seems to be in the US (but maybe that is just media blowing it out of proportion) I think we may need a more driven leader for the Social Democrats (leading party in Sweden), but perhaps that is also unfair of me - as due to how coalitions work, maybe we have to make these compromises on social democracy.
tl;dr I'm a social democrat, not entirely convinced by our current party leader's ability to lead.
"In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Paradox of tolerance
As opposed to "People call the president Hitler or some kind of monkey every time". But, hey, everything negative against Obama or black people in general is racist. Can't allow him to be called a monkey while laughing about how Bush looks like a chimp.
Al Sharpton will cut you a check soon.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
“Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”
"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
Ambrose Bierce
The Bird of Hermes Is My Name, Eating My Wings To Make Me Tame.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
Trying to be by seeing if I can change your faux-intellectual and horrendously inconsistent standards with regards to left vs right. specifically talking about you and dextrodens self victimization with regards to the whole alt right nonsense while you and him continuously consider the left to be a unanimous borg like collective with a single ideology.
“Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”
"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
Ambrose Bierce
The Bird of Hermes Is My Name, Eating My Wings To Make Me Tame.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.