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Originally Posted by bernardos70
So are Republicans right in this trying to relabel Democrats as socialists and are in fact only "bunch of useless hypocrites and clowns" due to other unrelated policies/ideals? Is that what you mean?
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More like.....
....if a psychopath says that a schizophrenic is nuts, he certainly has a point. That doesn't make him less of a psychopath, but he is correct about the schizo being a bit bonkers.
(this is not to say that Democrats and Republicans are mentally ill....mentally ill people have a rational excuse for their behavior!)
More generally, all of the nasty things each party says about the other are more or less true...some of the things may be a bit more stretched than others, but the general themes and charges levied by each party against the other are reasonable enough characterizations.
If you break down a number of tit-4-tats between partisans, you'll find many (maybe most) follow this sort of form:
1. X argues that Party A has committed the outrageous act of __________, and that Y's unwillingness to condemn this is tacit support of said destructive act;
2. Y retorts that previously Party B committed an outrageous act that was analogous to _________, and furthermore that X was a hypocrite for not decrying __________ when Party B was in charge;
3. Rinse, lather, repeat.
It's all just a long way of saying, "I know you are but what am I?"
Watching the two parties go back and forth from a (genuinely) disinterested perspective is a bit like watching the Hatfields and McCoy's do battle--they're a bunch of inbreds from the same small gene pool with few meaningful differences between them, fighting loudly and bitterly over a pig.