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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (21624)6/21/2006 6:33:42 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 541478
 
The problem is that the hyperbole is a very deliberate effort to demonize the other side as a political strategy.

I have in the past used both terms for emphasis. I really can't abide statism, either the nanny version or the authoritarian version. So when individuals or parties come up with something particularly egregious and irksome in that regard my immediate reaction is "damn bunch of socialists (or fascists)," as the case may be. I was not saying it to demonize but to express my displeasure about a particular proposal, pointing out the slippery slope in it. letting off some steam.

But since political expression has gotten worse, I don't want to be part of that problem or give aid and comfort to the partisans and the demonizers in any way. So I've learned to leave it out of my posts. Still think it sometimes, though.
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