Tag: Wingnuts

Oh look, more evidence that it’s isn’t both sides after all! From the VoteView blog piece Polarization is Real (and Asymmetric): [W]e should be careful not to equate the two parties’ roles in contemporary political polarization: the data are clear that this is a Republican-led phenomenon where very conservative Republicans have replaced…

Charles Pierce over at Esquire begs the Democratic Party to try and salvage what’s left of the GOP.  Looking at the root of the rot, he finds that the Democrats are as culpable in the deterioration of the Republicans as the Republicans are themselves. As conservatism was developing its powerful infrastructure,…

And I am convinced that they are engaged in an epic battle with a heinous enemy called “The Democrat Party.”  I hear countless references to this evil group from politicians and pundits across the right-wing-o-sphere.  Never mind that this is a wholly fabricated entity constructed from the shit and shine-ola that pours from hate-talk…

And the left has to stop playing to them. I debated posting about this because I thought it seemed kinda silly, but with the continued estrangement between right and left, I thought it might be worthwhile. Most of us on the left tend to ignore what many moderates and certainly…