Thread by @JewhadiTM

Civility vanished long ago, thanks to Democrats
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News flash: Leading Democrats are calling for an end to civility.

Yes, Hillary Clinton, who we can’t miss because she won’t go away, was only the latest to weigh in this past week.

When Democrats regain power, “that’s when civility can start again" she said.

Here’s a brief, somewhat representative list of statements from what Clinton thinks was an era of civility that now must end until people do as they’re told and vote only for Democrats:

• Anne Lamont, author and activist, in 2004 speaking of John McCain (just recently laid to rest with Dems endlessly praising him as a courageous, moral beacon and hero) and Sarah Palin: “… lying, rageful and incompetent, so dangerous to children and old people …”

• @FrankRichNY, liberal columnist, on GOP consultant Karl Rove: “A Rovian political strategy by definition means all slime, all the time.” Or, on Palin: “… she’s a new low in reptilian villainy …”

• Professor Susan J. Douglas, chair of the University of Michigan’s school of education, in 2014: “It’s OK to hate Republicans.”

• @HillaryClinton on Trump supporters "... the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”

• Actor Peter Fonda, on President Donald Trump’s young son, Baron: “(He should be) put into a cage with pedophiles.”

• Steven Colbert, to a wildly cheering audience: Trump’s only usefulness is to (much more graphically expressed) perform a sex act on Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

• @RepMaxineWaters: “If you see anybody from (the Trump administration) in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd! … Tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere!“

• Former AG @EricHolder repudiating former first lady Michelle Obama’s already fanciful “When they go low, we go high”: “When they go low, we kick them.”

And that doesn’t even count the millions of hits you’ll get if you search the web for “BushHitler.”

Nor does it count the multiple instances of high-profile celebrities openly wishing for Trump to be assassinated, or urging any useful, violent idiots out there to “take one for the team.”

Beyond that rhetoric, there was the outspoken supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders who unleashed a fusillade of more than 200 bullets last year at a baseball practice of congressional Republicans, critically wounding House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.

Contrast that with this past week, when the mainstream media had the collective vapors over Trump simply calling those who became profane, abusive and violent in their efforts to derail the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh exactly what they were: an angry mob

And after all this, people like Clinton and Holder want us to believe that the Democrats’ problem is that they’re just too darn nice.

Insults or labels tossed at another person are not an argument. By now, the list of terms is both tiresome and familiar – racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, patriarchal, privileged, misogynist, nationalistic – which all generally fall under the umbrella term “hater.”

None of them makes a point, defends an opinion, documents a claim, or makes any effort to persuade. They simply call somebody what the user hopes will shut the person up and eliminate the need for an argument.

You know, as Sen. @MazieHirono, D-Hawaii, said to all men amid the meltdown over Kavanaugh, “Just shut up and step up – do the right thing.”

As in: Don’t talk. Just do what I tell you.