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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
It does seem to me, were I a practical political strategist on the left, that I would owe it to the future and viability of my various constituencies to consider just these questions as are raised in the thread starter.
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Nah. The best way to combat stupidity is to let stupidity destroy itself.
I have only so far skimmed the article, but portions of it that I read are full of assumptions and heavy-handed distortions. If this is to be considered a valuable critique of the "left", I can only chuckle. It seems the underlying point of the article is that the "left" is somehow hypocritical. As if the "right" is not, and as if it is just this hypocrisy on the part of the "left" that produced the election result. That is nonsense.
flstf is correct: the election is based on likability. Substance is ignored and if it is not, it is distorted into lies. The theoretical elimination of hypocrisy by either "side" is not going to change any of that. Particularly when one side is pointing to the other and exclaiming "You're a hypocrite!" It serves no purpose other than to continue to same old rhetoric.
I'm almost suprised you, ARTelevision, would encourage such an article. But then again, I'm not.