(11-15-2016 12:17 PM)I45owl Wrote:  Lining up Soros, Yellen and whoever else it was in a sinister video is subtle, but the Trump campaign has unapologetic-ally played to both sides way too many times for there to be no intent, IMHO.

If you're trying to convince me that Trump is anti-Semitic, it's going to take a lot more than putting Soros and Yellen and whoever else in a video. I know Soros is Jewish, but only because of the stories about how he ratted out his fellow Jews to the Nazis. I had no idea Yellen was Jewish, and frankly couldn't care less. I can't even remember who whoever else was, let alone whether he/she is Jewish.

People are pissed off at Soros, not because he is Jewish, but because he is an evil human being who seems to be dedicated to destroying western economies. People are pissed off at Yellen, not because she is Jewish, but because she represents the establishment that so many feel has screwed them.

This is the problem that the left doesn't seem to get. The more you try to marginalize legitimate complaints by passing them off as racism or sexism or xenophobia or whatever, the more you are going to piss off the people who are complaining. There are legitimate people who have legitimate and honestly-held complaints and who are tired of being marginalized, and they turned against you big time in this last election. And as long as you maintain your holier-than-thou condescension, all you're going to accomplish is pissing them off even more.