martybegan
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- Apr 5, 2010
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An ideology can infect and distort the perceptions and thought processes of perfectly intelligent people.Yeah, I can agree with that. And they became far more emboldened when Obama was elected.Yup. And we would have seen the same guilt by association.And people like Hillary have some supporters that are asshole communists, or at best, "democratic socialists"
I don't know what this accomplishes, but it's par for the course.
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For some on the left there is more than association. Most libertarians/conservatives don't want to BECOME racists/nazi/alt-rightists.
I have a feeling there are more democrats who sympathize with at least the democratic socialist views, big government, social government control, etc.
DeBlasio is a perfect example of this.
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I have a cousin who is a hard core Democratic Socialist. He's also a retired professor of History, and a former communist. He's intelligent, lucid, and has no idea why people don't understand his ideas, or willingly follow them.
On the other hand his daughter is a full blown Anti-fa type, and not as smart as her father.
That's how powerful it is, and why it needs to be avoided.
It's a lifestyle virus, something we bring on ourselves, not unlike herpes.
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There is nothing wrong with ideology, just how it is applied. I don't have a deep sense of dread and hate that my cousin is a Democratic Socialist. He has a different opinion of how the world should work. I am not offended by that, I just think he is wrong. However when I explain my views on things, from my Strict Constructional Federalist (with libertarian (small "l") leanings) it almost seems my views pain him, like he needs to hate me about it.
It's an inability to allow others to have differing views than yourself, and see their views as valid (if wrong) that I see as the problem.