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Originally Posted by Ohio
Both the Recovery, the Democratic apparatus, and the Communist Party have one prevailing theme: We are the best, and all others are evil. They are not just wrong, with bad ideas, or misinformed . . .
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Sounds a little like the kind of propaganda that adds demeaning nicknames for everyone that disagrees with Trump. (In other words, you forgot the Republican apparatus.) The group that declares non-conservatives to have mental disorders (and they gave a medal to the guy who coined that phrase). Or declares them to be a "waste of skin." Or "animals" from "s**thole countries."
Somehow those kinds of statements don't reflect our command to love our neighbor. Not saying all Republicans have to act like Christians. But those of us who
are Christian should.
Truth is that there is no difference in terms of rhetoric concerning the "others." Second verse, same as the first. Meet the new boss — same as the old boss. Once we get grips on this, we can admit all of our faults and start to see that no one has a lock on the right way to go and no one is simply wrong because they are not "us." Right now, the guns are all out and no one is blinking.
Yes, Bernie is a nut. Reminds me of Doc from
Back to the Future. "Great Scott!!" But Socialism is not the same as Communism. Yeah, some of those "Democratic Socialists" are pretty rabid. But they are not the majority — even of the Democratic party. So don't get your panties in a wad about them. And everything to the left of the far-right is not "liberal" or socialist.