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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Come on. That was a complete load of horseshit. Waters is something assholes get to point at to justify their bullshit. "She's encouraging intolerance! I can't vote for any party that has someone like her! I'll continue voting for assholes who ban Muslims, destroy families seeking asylum, cage children, roll back civil rights at an alarming rate, stomp on the LGBT community, steal Supreme Court seats, are caught up in fraud, scandal and treason, have diminished our standing across the world, etc., instead."
It's complete bullshit. Anyone who says their mind was changed based on what Waters said is lying through their crooked, rotten (most likely racist) teeth.
TM
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The point I wanted to make was a bit different. I agree with you that what Waters says will change no one's views on the right (and I think if Waters didn't exist they'd make up someone else an awful lot like her (or find someone, even if they needed to find a county commissioner or zoning appeals officer somewhere)).
But it's the idea that they don't have to have their own views of anything - their own moral compass - but can justify whatever they are doing based on it being not-Waters, not-Clinton or not-Obama. SEC was saying basically that conservatives were ready to ok putting kids in internment camps as long as Waters didn't like it.
What we are seeing is an abdication by much of the right of any sense of character or morality. They don't care how many pimps, rapists, pederasts or just plain old corrupt fucks they vote for, and they don't care what the rationale behind a trade war or a tax bill is (they won't have hearings and discuss them, anyways). It's a motto of "I don't care."
