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oh please go ahead and show me how his record stacks up of fucking the poor vs not fucking the poor.
Whatever his faults, McCain was someone who was able to treat those who disagreed with him with respect and sought to rise above tribal name-calling and invective.
boring centrist fence-sitting should be used with care lest we end up with a resurgence of the ultra-right in mainstream politics. oh whoops.
spiderpie-
boring centrist fence-sitting should be used with care lest we end up with a resurgence of the ultra-right in mainstream politics.
Gosh, your invective name-calling tribalism is really effective in making me reconsider my views and challenge my preconceptions. Not.
P.S. Do you really think that your approach of putting the whole population into diametrically-opposed pigeon holes and then insulting the one you don't like is likely to prevent extremism? I'd say that history suggest that rejecting pigeon-holing, and taking a mature and balanced approach which acknowledges that not all answers are simple or binary prevents extremism rather than encouraging it. Together with actually thinking about issues rather than relying upon knee-jerk factional responses.
Brommers
Hyperbole is a rhetorical device which should be used with care.
Whatever his faults, McCain was someone who was able to treat those who disagreed with him with respect and sought to rise above tribal name-calling and invective. Unlike some people on this thread.