Just what Democrats Need: Another Round of Self-Flagellation (sarcasm)

[NJCher]

This editorial points out that the standards for criticism of the two parties are wildly hypocritical.

Because this is a Washington Post paywall, I've gifted the article. Link at end of snip.

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Meanwhile, actual extremism is not only more prevalent in the Republican Party, extremism reaches into its highest echelons. Yet Republican elected officials are far less likely to be weighed down by their own right flank than Democrats are by their left.

What accounts for the difference? It’s partly a matter of psychology. Democrats tend to be timid and self-critical, always gripped by the fear that at any moment the public will reject them. On the other hand, Republicans have embraced a political style that values aggression and shamelessness.

But more important is the informational environments the two parties exist in.

At the center of the Republican universe sits Fox News, a network devoted to stirring outrage, resentment and White grievance. Fox News is the hub of a propaganda wheel, where each day’s programming is filled with stories of liberal excess and the supposed threat it poses to everything that is right and good.

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https://wapo.st/36jUAeZ

[TreasonousBastard]

1. I have noticed that conservatives (not just Republicans) seem to "head right"...

as far as policy goes. The right is already there for them and needs very little adjustment from the code words.

We more or less on the left, however, can never fully agree with just what our aims are, and are constantly at war with each other on just what the "correct" path is.

There are few people on the Republican middle ground any more, as they have headed rightward, while we still have a middle ground, and the left fringes can't agree on what we want, or how to get there.

[John Ludi]

2. I have said that

eventually we will split off into two different species like the Eloi and Morlochs from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine...unless we kill ourselves off first.

[Skittles]

3. repukes behave like rich white men

and we all know how low the bar is for them