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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 2004423" data-attributes="member: 229">Here&#039;s my problem with this line of thinking though.&quot;The left&quot; is one autonomous entity in the minds of a lot of folks (dare I say most folks on this site).&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t matter who says what - it&#039;s ultimately the fault of &quot;the collective left&quot;.When someone from the right says something stupid (and they do... often... Glen Beck is a champion in that field), then GOP drones easily dismiss it as the one-time action of an individual (because obviously, the collective right is smarter than the collective left - we&#039;re the good guys).Then (and both sides do this so I&#039;m only using a single-side example) folks on the right simultaneously complain about what the Left is doing and responding to the Left by doing those exact same things (hypocrisy, thy name is... well either side to be honest).Beck is an idiot and has more than a few quotes on record that are racist, offensive, angry, flat-out-lies, and finger-pointing.&nbsp; Aside from those types of comments, he&#039;s primarily talking about how the left is racist, angry, flat-out-lying, and pointing fingers.I just feel like at some point we all figure out that this roller coaster doesn&#039;t go anywhere but we&#039;re all still screaming and holding our hands up in the hopes of fooling ourselves into one more thrill until we have to admit that we&#039;re all living a horrible lie.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 2004423, member: 229"] Here's my problem with this line of thinking though. "The left" is one autonomous entity in the minds of a lot of folks (dare I say most folks on this site). It doesn't matter who says what - it's ultimately the fault of "the collective left". When someone from the right says something stupid (and they do... often... Glen Beck is a champion in that field), then GOP drones easily dismiss it as the one-time action of an individual (because obviously, the collective right is smarter than the collective left - we're the good guys). Then (and both sides do this so I'm only using a single-side example) folks on the right simultaneously complain about what the Left is doing and responding to the Left by doing those exact same things (hypocrisy, thy name is... well either side to be honest). Beck is an idiot and has more than a few quotes on record that are racist, offensive, angry, flat-out-lies, and finger-pointing. Aside from those types of comments, he's primarily talking about how the left is racist, angry, flat-out-lying, and pointing fingers. I just feel like at some point we all figure out that this roller coaster doesn't go anywhere but we're all still screaming and holding our hands up in the hopes of fooling ourselves into one more thrill until we have to admit that we're all living a horrible lie. [/QUOTE]

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