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When will Democrats ever learn that giving in to bullies never works - never - not in a million election cycles. As every schoolyard victim knows all too well, when you give in to a bully he or she will just keep coming back, continually upping the ante - until, finally, after much misery, the victim is left with no choice but to either accept the pain and humiliation indefinitely or to finally fight back.
Bullying, of course, has been the right wing's political weapon of choice for well over a decade, but rarely has it been more starkly on display than in the last few weeks. The town hall bullies, backed up by both corporate
special interests and the right wing noise machine, have been making quite a splash. Recent polling suggests that their lies, as transparently foolish as they seem to those of us on the left, may actually be carrying the day.
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As someone on another thread stated: Pot, meet kettle.
meaning the Democrats have been bullies???
I've had the luxury of seeing politics from both spectrums. Over the last decade I've had the luxury of an independant view, with a long term memory. Both sides constantly use the same tactics to varying degrees at varying times dependant upon what they feel the situation calls for.
For a current example: "We're going to do this (cram it down your gullets) whether you like it or not". Sounds like bullying to me.