The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(02-01-2020, 02:41 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I don't have a problem if you demonize a demon as long as they're an obvious demon and not someone who simply disagrees or politically opposes you or is a fixture of your imagination or a kind of person that you don't like for some reason or another.

Well, liars, people that frequently threaten violence, people who commonly redefine words to something so indecipherable to make their attempts to communicate undecipherable, people who use schoolyard taunting in their common conversation…. All would qualify as ‘a kind of person that you don't like for some reason or another.’  But if the reason has no relation to politics, or cyclic theory, or anything with meaning to the site, I could see it.  Like, I would not demonize someone whose fashion was not mine, or died her hair an odd color.  That would not matter in her making a contribution to the site.

Does this create a problem?

One problem I have is illustrated by your claiming the Koch brothers are liberal.  They reworked Fox News into the model of a pro conservative propaganda machine, and created the split reality which in turn split the country.  I am a liberal and live among liberals, and don't know of anyone who would count the Koch brothers as among their own.  Yet, if you redefine liberal to mean something quite different than the standard definition, the statement might be true...  if meaningless.  You don't know which problem to take seriously.  I turns the statement from a lie to a problem akin to where the speaker has defined 'white' to mean 'black' but has not told anybody.  If it happens regularly, you have to throw a lot of baby out with the bathwater.