leashyourkids wrote:
LTG and I went round and round in the primaries over Hillary's bullshit. More than his blind allegiance to Hillary, his hatred of Sanders drove me insane. Still does.
That said, much of what he says is true. There is a reluctance to criticize Trump, and it's hard to pinpoint why. If I had to guess, I think Trump is viewed by many in the same way that liberals view Islam... there is a reluctance to criticize because they don't take him seriously. The problem is that he's on the cusp of being President of the United States. It's not only scary... it's embarrassing. Hillary is an evil liar... and yet she should be president 100 times out of 100 over this moronic sociopath. Donald Trump has already hurt America in big ways, and he hasn't even held office. He stirs up the racist and xenophobic loudmouths and continues to promote the ignorant beliefs of the uneducated. Words matter. You can sit here all day and talk about how awful the Clintons have been for minorities... and you'd be right... but it's still preferable to the tone Trump has made acceptable in a civilized country. His policy proposals are laughable and make the rest of the world nervous. If the argument is that he doesn't mean what he says, then I don't know what the hell we are supposed to judge people on. I can't accept a political climate where people say "Oh, don't worry... they don't mean anything they say." It's beyond absurd. I'll take the lying corporatist over the idiotic, bigoted corporatist with no sense of reality every time.
I agree with all of that.
And I would suggest that it's sort of like me criticizing Quintana more than I criticize James Shields. James Shields requires no criticism. Anyone with a brain knows he's horseshit. But Quintana would be like Hillary. There are those constantly telling us how great she is in spite of a mountain of evidence to the contrary. That becomes frustrating. And this idea that if you find her to be anything less than awesome, you hate women is just bullshit. Hillary might be a .500 president, but I think most of us would like more than that.
Imagine if every time I mentioned Quintana losing another game to a supposedly lesser pitcher that LTG popped into the thread accusing me of thinking James Shields was better than Quintana.