(07-20-2018 02:19 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(07-20-2018 02:11 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Flying the mfing Viet Cong flag while burning the US flag speaks volumes as well, Lad.

I *am* sorry that history *consistently* shows your side of the spectrum gravitating, if not explicitly* then implicitly towards Communist and and Socialist spectrum. And many there favoring the flags, symbols, and ideologies of those movements.

Your response (in both segments) is to use that construct to label Conservatives as gravitating towards racists.

And you *wonder* why Trump gains the support he does after that comparison? Good for you, Lad. You prove another point entirely with that back and forth.

I'm confused, are you saying history hasn't shown that the fringes of the Republican party hasn't gravitated towards racism or neo-nazism? Which party developed the Southern Strategy to try and court fringe voters?

I never said that the far left end of the spectrum hasn't gravitated towards communism - I simply pointed out how unhelpful that comment was because it does not start a constructive conversation. Case and point.

If we want to have an honest conversation about how the far left/right are developing and what they're supporting, then let's do that. But trying to say that "a lot" of leftists would rather support Che than the U.S. is as incendiary (and untrue) as what I said.

I would definitely state that *far more* leftists would support the ideology and iconism if Che etc. than rightists do of the Third Reich or that of supporting the concept of slavery. No fing doubt of that in my mind.

When you narrow it down to supposed 'mainstream' rightists and leftists, that ratio grow a LOT larger as well.