Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!

[Eric the Green]

(01-28-2017, 12:05 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(01-26-2017, 11:54 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

As with many of your posts, the above is a good example of demonization.  Obama was depicted as a muslim terrorists and as a monkey.  A hostile press with repeated propaganda can try to poison the public's mind, to build a vile stereotype of what a politician is really like.  Alas, such efforts can to a great degree succeed.  Extreme partisans are willing and ready to make any excuse to present their own leaders as being wise and dignified while believing the worst of the other side's politicians.

I don't have a lot of sympathy with Trump when he presents the press as hostile.  Hostile?  If anyone opposes him in any way, be they press, beauty pageant contestants, gold star parents, whomever, he will attack, insult and demean.  To a great degree he has earned a hostile press and deserves what is coming.

But as a continuous barrage of hateful propaganda seeps into a partisan group, the conversation is poisoned.  Does the above caricature of Trump have any more merit that Obama as a terrorist?  If the above reflects the alternate universe you live in, is there no wonder you can't deal with reality?

Oh Bob, you're such a "nasty" man

I don't think so. I think your second paragraph is reflected in this cartoon, and all cartoons exaggerate. It's part of American tradition.

Let Trump prove who Trump is.

Obama is wise and dignified; Trump is not. That I consider to be fact, regardless of my "extreme partisanship"

I don't see how he can be seen as anything but vile after his appointments, behavior and actions so far. But if and when he does something right and good, I will say so. I give credit where credit is due.

Let's see if he can do anything about trade policy and infrastructure, in the right way. Let's see if he makes peace or war.