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In reply to the discussion: Anatomy of a Rat Fuck [View all]beerandjesus
(1,301 posts)...and I frankly suspect that it came off quite differently on Thom Hartmann's show, the part that raised my hackles was this:
2. Two weeks before the election: Accuse every mainstream Democratic politician of being 3-way, corporate, conserva-dems, DINOs who doesn't care about the voters.
Unwritten message: no point in voting
#1 is a charge we lefties also see leveled at us pretty frequently on here, but #2 was the one that sounded pretty unambiguous to me. I honestly am not familiar enough with your posting history to know how far on the left you are, but if you're reasonably fair minded--which I'm pretty well convinced you are--I'm sure you can see why it might get tedious to come on here, day after day, and hear about how by *not* pretending that Obama and Hillary are the Second Coming of FDR, I'm somehow helping the Republicans.
In the context of your last post, the Weyrich thing feels a lot less inflammatory; I also re-read the OP, imagining it in Thom Hartmann's voice, and it sounded a hell of a lot less antagonistic than it did when I first read it. I still question the motivations of the original poster, but I think I probably came down too hard on you, and for that, I apologize.