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In reply to the discussion: Strange how the same people running around calling everyone Authoritarians [View all]LWolf
(46,179 posts)You have no responsibility to search. Of course, you didn't really want proof, did you? It was just a one-liner thrown out to suggest that it wasn't true. After all, you were already at the site, and on the page. Yet you admit you've seen the attacks. Of course, unless somebody is sorting through posts by pov, you can't say which "side" has more. You could say that you tend to notice those that are attacking your own pov more.
If you are really looking at both sides, you might notice that one side is about defending the president NO MATTER WHAT. The other side is about issues, and is criticizing because the current POTUS is failing on those issues. One is about partisanship and personalities. One is about issues.
I'll suggest that, without issues as a foundation, partisanship is irrelevant.
I'll also point out that the vast majority of those who "don't like the President" are those who enthusiastically supported and voted for him...twice. It's not a matter of "don't like." It's a deeply embedded sense of betrayal by the "New Democrats" who have thrown us "old" Democrats under the bus. And along with that sense of betrayal is a growing anger. It's not about "liking." It's about the disappointment, the loss of hope, the feeling of betrayal, and the anger every time the POTUS does something that is unfriendly to long-held Democratic principles, unfriendly to large segments of the traditional Democratic base.
Why would you expect anyone to stay quiet about that?