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In reply to the discussion: Why Ron Paul attracts some liberals. [View all]joshcryer
(62,269 posts)Simple. DU is where we are currently posting. The primary audience for posts here is other DUers.
I don't consider any sort of respect is necessary for capitalist ultra-nationalists like Ron Paul. And nether do the Admins who have used the term "Fuck Ron Paul," which no doubt qualifies as "schoolyard rhetoric," as you call it.
If you are contending that no DUers employ "low level, boring, unimportant, mean-spirited, schoolyard rhetoric," then I suggest you say so, as otherwise DUers are included in your "criticism" which is why liberals are so weak on so many issues. I want partisanship. 3 years of Obama has shown us what bipartisanship does. The Republicans vote in a bloc, if anyone is voting against our wishes it's a small number of Democrats who "reach across the isle" and "compromise."
No more. I congratulate and defend all DUers and Democrats alike who use "low level, boring, unimportant, mean-spirited, schoolyard rhetoric" if its target is people like right wing ultra-nationalists like Ron Paul.
And our politics would be better for it if we differentiated ourselves from these people, if everyone understood, and explained, that Ron Paul's ideas have nothing to do with ours, even if they "sound" the same. We must fight these fascists we can't respect them.