It's not about beliefs, it's about behavior. It was his constant belittling and attacking and identifying of other Americans not as companions with differences in opinion or as ideological rivals but as ENEMIES. The very thing that post I was responding to was about. The very thing you now pretend to care about while defending a man who made an entire career out of it.
As someone who Rush talked down on....Rush did it more from a playful standpoint. He did add the element of fear....but did it from a genuine point.
As a left leaning person....people in the northeast & in academia do look down on the rural areas of the nation. Now GOP policies aren't the most helpful...but I've lived in those areas and have been in those circles. They do think we're all stupid...and they need to tell us what to do.
The difference in people on my side is that they believe any dissent makes you the equivalent of a slave-holder and Hitler. We used to be the party of worker rights and fighting for equality....but it's beyond that now....anyone who doesn't agree is Hitler.
Like the issue of transgenderism, my point is that no one should experience hate & should be able to have a job and a home no matter what they were or look like.....but our side now believes that if you just want to have a discussion on gender identity & don't accept what's being told....even though it's unsettled science....you're a new Hitler.
The Left is now what the religious right was in the 1980's & 1990's....which is what drove me, a Christian, to be more liberal....but now the left is driving people further right with the policing of speech.
