This will get easier as the Left keeps taking their masks - Granite Grok

This will get easier as the Left keeps taking their masks

Heh!

Jeffrey Medford, a small-business owner in South Carolina, voted reluctantly for Donald Trump. As a conservative, he felt the need to choose the Republican. But some things are making him feel uncomfortable — parts of Mr. Trump’s travel ban, for example, and the recurring theme of his apparent affinity for Russia.

Mr. Medford should be a natural ally for liberals trying to convince the country that Mr. Trump was a bad choice. But it is not working out that way. Every time Mr. Medford dips into the political debate — either with strangers on Facebook or friends in New York and Los Angeles — he comes away feeling battered by contempt and an attitude of moral superiority.

“We’re backed into a corner,” said Mr. Medford, 46, whose business teaches people to be filmmakers. “There are at least some things about Trump I find to be defensible. But they are saying: ‘Agree with us 100 percent or you are morally bankrupt. You’re an idiot if you support any part of Trump.’ ”

He added: “I didn’t choose a side. They put me on one.”

Liberals may feel energized by a surge in political activism, and a unified stance against a president they see as irresponsible and even dangerous. But that momentum is provoking an equal and opposite reaction on the right. In recent interviews, conservative voters said they felt assaulted by what they said was a kind of moral Bolshevism — the belief that the liberal vision for the country was the only right one. Disagreeing meant being publicly shamed.

Conservatives are at least willing to debate the issues (well, most of us anyways) but a lot, if not most, of Progressives are not (right, Zandra Rice-Hawkins of Granite State Progress?).  Conservatives, always remember that while we may think they are misguided, they BELIEVE we are EVIL.  Keep that in mind as you read the above again.

They don’t believe that we have anything to offer – not at all.  Look, for them (being the social entities that are the most unchurched – well, except for this guy, maybe) politics IS their religion.  That makes us all sinners not to be “redeemed” but to be cast out and not allowed to be in their Heaven on Earth.  That makes it quite easy to say “ or you are morally bankrupt“.

Progressives have injected politics (and their nasty deconstructed morality masquerading as “political correctness”) into every part of life and I do mean every single cranny – it’s the Gramsci “take the ramparts of Society” Trojan Horse to have traditional American Society rot from the inside and then commit suicide.

What better way to help that along than to split society in two?

(H/T: Instapundit)

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