It seems terribly dismissive to frame these as a result of right wing (or other) agitation. There are significant differences between people who want to throw trans people under the bus and those who don’t, etc.
Sure, it must be nice for the right to be able to rally around whatever false talking points they gin up for the day. But when you have people who care about the truth, they will disagree sometimes.
The divisions aren’t a result of right wing bigotry, but they are exploited by right wing propagandists.
What they actually do is frame all of these arguments without nuance. Then when corporate media goes with that framing you have reductivist talking points that bully out any reasonable debate.
This is a superpower that the GOP has and the DNC cannot replicate with the current level of public discourse.
I just want to point out what you’re saying now directly contradicts the original comment I replied to.
I don’t think we disagree very much. My point was and still is that divisions in the left come from policy disputes, not the nonsense that the base comment still hasn’t supported.
It seems terribly dismissive to frame these as a result of right wing (or other) agitation. There are significant differences between people who want to throw trans people under the bus and those who don’t, etc.
Sure, it must be nice for the right to be able to rally around whatever false talking points they gin up for the day. But when you have people who care about the truth, they will disagree sometimes.
The divisions aren’t a result of right wing bigotry, but they are exploited by right wing propagandists.
What they actually do is frame all of these arguments without nuance. Then when corporate media goes with that framing you have reductivist talking points that bully out any reasonable debate.
This is a superpower that the GOP has and the DNC cannot replicate with the current level of public discourse.
I just want to point out what you’re saying now directly contradicts the original comment I replied to.
I don’t think we disagree very much. My point was and still is that divisions in the left come from policy disputes, not the nonsense that the base comment still hasn’t supported.