How We Got to This Point . . . The left's objective is to demonize their opposition

a reply to: ARM19688

I have done the same also, asking questions of how bad Trump is, only crickets can be heard.

Is a rhetoric, played over and over again, because let's face it, by democrats standards Trump can never be allowed in the white house again, that included any means necessary.

originally posted by: malte86
It is truly creepy how realities are denied here. New on ATS? Who is continuously demonized here? Who is labeled as fascists, pedophiles, satanists, senile etc.? Exactly such threads are partly responsible for what happened yesterday. Yes, Trump is demonized too, that's beyond question, but who isn't nowadays?

It all started with pizzagate. Now everyone they dislike is a satanic pedophile. With accusations like that, of course the other side is going to ramp up their game.

originally posted by: Euronymous2625

originally posted by: malte86
It is truly creepy how realities are denied here. New on ATS? Who is continuously demonized here? Who is labeled as fascists, pedophiles, satanists, senile etc.? Exactly such threads are partly responsible for what happened yesterday. Yes, Trump is demonized too, that's beyond question, but who isn't nowadays?

It all started with pizzagate. Now everyone they dislike is a satanic pedophile. With accusations like that, of course the other side is going to ramp up their game.

Hell yea, anyone who is against child molestation is nuts. MAP 4 life, amrite.
It should be celebrated. It takes courage to admit you diddle kids. It's only logical that they had to take a shot at Trump. He's orange. Orange.

a reply to: malte86

Trump has been demonized by the left. The people who are observant have been saying for years that Biden seems to have dementia and is lying to protect his reputation and to protect his son. I had someone ask me if I was MAGA, no I am not MAGA just because I don't think some top democrat leaders are corrupt or have cognitive problems.

I have been dodging ad Hominem tactics for many years, I can identify when someone is using them on me even when they don't even know what Ad hominem actually means. Until I started studying how to use those tactics years back, I was unaware that there were colleges specialized in training students to use those tactics to control the public. It isn't a specific class, it is a practice used by teachers which teaches the students how to utilize these deceptions legally

back in the 1960s there was a domestic terrorist named Saul Alinsky who wrote a book called 'Rules for Radicals'.
in it he advocated demonizing conservative opposition instead of engaging in legitimate debate.

Rule 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It's hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."

reads like a Clinton / Obama playbook.

originally posted by: ARM19688

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I have asked this on numerous threads here and across social media - what did Trump actually do wrong as president which warrants the vitriolic hate we see now? ...

Simple...he told the truth.

originally posted by: Coelacanth55
back in the 1960s there was a domestic terrorist named Saul Alinsky who wrote a book called 'Rules for Radicals'.
in it he advocated demonizing conservative opposition instead of engaging in legitimate debate.

Rule 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It's hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."

reads like a Clinton / Obama playbook.

Nobody seems to understand that the Progressive movement started in the late 18th century here in America.

They have been working hard behind the scenes for over 100 years.

4 waves so far... Wilson, FDR, Johnson and Obama.

All did things that made America weaker.

They are winning.

But phuck that history thing, right?

a reply to: rickymouse

Almost everyone is for MAGA. It's an individual's definition of what Makes America Great Again, that differs.

Joe Biden is mentally ill, which is why thinks Make America Great Again is an enemy slogan, espoused by an enemy group.

originally posted by: network dude
Hell yea, anyone who is against child molestation is nuts. MAP 4 life, amrite.
It should be celebrated. It takes courage to admit you diddle kids. It's only logical that they had to take a shot at Trump. He's orange. Orange.

#whoosh

Well it’s about damn time.
Finally, a democrat speaks up to denounce the dangerous rhetoric coming from his own party.

Democratic representative Jared Golden (D-ME) step up good sir 👍

“In a long Twitter/X thread Sunday, Golden exhorted his colleagues to tone down their incendiary statements and seeming calls to violence:

"We can start by dropping hyperbolic threats about the stakes of this election," he wrote. "It should not be misleadingly portrayed as a struggle between democracy or authoritarianism or a battle against fascists or socialists bent on destroying America. These are dangerous lies."
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This is a real leader.
I probably disagree with most of his opinions, but this is the right way to do things.
Speak up.
Call out the BS.
The democrats need to stop the violence.
It starts with them muzzling the radical loudmouths in their own ranks.