Probably the primary reason I'm not a progressive.
They lie.
Again and again, repeatedly and intentionally, for political gain.
Keller identified Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum as “all affiliated with fervid subsets of evangelical Christianity,” when Santorum is Catholic, Bachmann is Lutheran, and Perry is a Methodist. Keller hauls out the boogeyman of “dominionism,” when none of his targets are dominionists, and so on.
And you know what the response to this is from progressives? When they can't sweep it under the rug or ignore it, like they do other confrontations?
"Politicians on both sides do it!"
Yeah. You know what? There was a time I'd agree with you on that, right there. In fact, I would even agree with it now, except that there's a small problem.
They lie.
I'm not talking about spin. About putting your own view on events. About shaping the narrative. About any number of other things that I find personally repugnant and repellent in the production of our political product, but which is going to take place in any sort of debate.
They. Lie.
As for you, useful idiot on the left?
When you take this garbage, and suck it down, and smack your lips and ask for more?
When you are too lazy, and too stupid, and too ignorant to take 30 seconds in the age of always-on, internet connectivity to hit Google and find out if the outrageous lie that you're being fed makes any sense whatsoever, before you vomit it back up?
That silence right there - that's for you. The awkward pause in the conversation, the lack of replies to your Facebook post, the change in subject? Yeah, that's not agreement with your spew. That's people wondering if they should break off eye contact and back away slowly from the frothing lunatic.
And if that catches you by surprise - well. You know those Important People who've been telling you how Smart (tm) you are, how compassionate you are, how much better you are that those... those... flyover country tea bagger racist haters?
Yeah.
They lie.
Edit 8/29/11:
Some more lies from today. Well, OK, not from today... from this afternoon.
Edit 8/30/11:
There's a nice piece dissecting the whole "Theocratic Republicans!" lie over at Hot Air.
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