2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders is willing to sacrifice growth for the sake of redistribution. [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)Republicans have also made me want to throw my shoe, but that's to be expected.
I have seen politicians like Clinton ignore underlying cancers that are described as "growth" for decades. And echo the same false assumptions (con-man pitches) used to tell people "who ya going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?"
As for economic literacy....well no. Many "supporters" on both sides are not experts in economic theory (nor am I). But common sense and a basic level of observation is also required -- especially when convoluted "analysis" is used to justify the Emperor's New Clothes, as was done in the 90's.(I noted this in another post on this thread.)
And people can't pack all of their underlying reasons for supporting a candidate/movement/philosophy into every post on DU. Certain simplicity is required both for time and space considerations -- and DU is like a living room conversation.
Politics is a mix of the personal and the deeper issues. What I am referring to are dismissals of people who disagree with broad-brush and misleading insults. "Hillary bashers" and "Clinton haters" as a bunch of stupid morons is just as useless and counterproductive as characterizations of all Clinton supporters as brain-dead cultists.
With a few worthy exceptions, we all do that kind of crap to an extent. Me too. Nothing wrong with heated disagreements. But I think we all should avoid those stereotypes that merely are "button pushing" designed to replace legitimate disagreement with emotions Real Housewives of Beverly Hills type of "hatah" crap.
I'm guilty of that too, I'll admit. But we should all "try" not to get into such instant dismissive personal shit.