Reply To: Trump

[Siderite]

I don’t think I have made my disdain for conspiratorial and Trumpian thinking a secret. I try to be as measured as possible, but if someone presents me with damaging rhetoric about a cabal or group of any kind out to get someone I am going to argue against it. Like I say, turning a blind eye to corruption allows authoritarianism to ferment. This isn’t the case of a non-believer being punished, as with Stalin, but a legal case against someone for how they allegedly mishandled funds in politics. And it will possibly be more, as IA has said. To frame this as a political purge is not a measured opinion, from my standpoint. There is no other way about it, and I doubt Trump fans would ever accept charges against Trump, frankly no matter how justified. It’s like with Corbyn; anything against them has to be from an elite out to get them. None of it has much basis, but it’s corrosive to democracy to undermine the state based on conspiracies. There’s a reason why hard leftists and rightists use this tactic. OK, you didn’t say nefarious elite, ad verbatim, but it was the gist I got to a degree.

I would also probably say you are not being measured or balanced in this instance if I could type that again. I appreciate people have different views, and elsewhere there has been good debate, but I cannot go against my own interpretation of the discussions here. I cannot view the Nazi analogy to be measured, and there is good reason why Lineker (spelled correctly, I made the effort) got criticised, even if it shouldn’t have meant censorship. Same with you; I am not reporting posts or calling for bans.

I just agree to disagree.