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I read this column and thought of you guys at the AO. Aren't I thoughtful?
"A candidate runs for president. He clowns around for the cameras and then spews hate at millions of people. He proposes policies that would drastically violate civil rights. He incites riots that tear apart cities. By his second term, polls show an unprecedented level of racial divisiveness. The only thing blacks and whites agree on anymore is that race relations are in the toilet.
I'm talking about Obama of course.
(I know. Obama is awesome. It's only the Republicans who are terrible. And only racists oppose race riots. Also there would be no more terrorism if we just banned guns and box cutters.)
What does any of this have to do with Trump? Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. You wanted to move the country to the left. Did you really think the other half of the country would just sit there while you broke more laws, abused more power and took away more of their civil rights?
Trump is here because of Obama. If you think Trump is bad, imagine what the opposition would look like if you got Bernie Sanders elected."
"And considering how badly the left's social experiments have a way of failing and how far to the left you folks are going these days, the rubber band will snap. And if you're lucky, that's only going to mean President Ted Cruz. If you're really lucky, it will be President Jeb. But if you get enough of your way, then it'll be someone who makes you long for the sound reasonable voice of Donald J. Trump.
That's not a threat. It's reality.
When you embrace political extremism, there are consequences. The first of those consequences is that the moderate opposition gets discredited. When you throw out the rule book, the other side doesn't just walk away. It throws away the rule book too."
"So keep terrorizing bakers who won't make the politically correct cakes, ramming ObamaCare down everyone's throats twice as hard, claiming every puddle as a Federal waterway and threatening to prosecute critics of Islam instead of fighting Islamic terrorism.
Just remember that in the real world, there is a price to pay for all that. In Socialist utopian fantasies, you can have everything you want without ever having to pay for it. In the real world, tacking hard left means that the opposition goes right."
Read the whole thing.
I read this column and thought of you guys at the AO. Aren't I thoughtful?
"A candidate runs for president. He clowns around for the cameras and then spews hate at millions of people. He proposes policies that would drastically violate civil rights. He incites riots that tear apart cities. By his second term, polls show an unprecedented level of racial divisiveness. The only thing blacks and whites agree on anymore is that race relations are in the toilet.
I'm talking about Obama of course.
(I know. Obama is awesome. It's only the Republicans who are terrible. And only racists oppose race riots. Also there would be no more terrorism if we just banned guns and box cutters.)
What does any of this have to do with Trump? Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. You wanted to move the country to the left. Did you really think the other half of the country would just sit there while you broke more laws, abused more power and took away more of their civil rights?
Trump is here because of Obama. If you think Trump is bad, imagine what the opposition would look like if you got Bernie Sanders elected."
"And considering how badly the left's social experiments have a way of failing and how far to the left you folks are going these days, the rubber band will snap. And if you're lucky, that's only going to mean President Ted Cruz. If you're really lucky, it will be President Jeb. But if you get enough of your way, then it'll be someone who makes you long for the sound reasonable voice of Donald J. Trump.
That's not a threat. It's reality.
When you embrace political extremism, there are consequences. The first of those consequences is that the moderate opposition gets discredited. When you throw out the rule book, the other side doesn't just walk away. It throws away the rule book too."
"So keep terrorizing bakers who won't make the politically correct cakes, ramming ObamaCare down everyone's throats twice as hard, claiming every puddle as a Federal waterway and threatening to prosecute critics of Islam instead of fighting Islamic terrorism.
Just remember that in the real world, there is a price to pay for all that. In Socialist utopian fantasies, you can have everything you want without ever having to pay for it. In the real world, tacking hard left means that the opposition goes right."
Read the whole thing.
A Guide for Progressives Trying to Understand Trump