On Facebook today, the science fiction author David Brin posted an article from the UK paper Guardian (actually, from its US edition), with this comment:
“For all their posturing about defending children from abuse, their record tells another story.” At last! A point I raised in Polemical Judo. The GOP hurls slurs to cover the pure fact they are VASTLY worse in every metric of turpitude. The long list includes far, far more sexual perverts and predators, including several who were TOP leaders of the party. One of the top reasons you can assume at least 25% odds any high level Republican is being blackmailed.
FINALLY someone with a megaphone is saying it.
And here is the article.
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LQCs: How America Skews Far Right
First today, I am struck by this graphic reposted by David Gerrold and others on Facebook the other day. It has no provenance — I can’t tell who originally created it, nor what data might back it up — but I have heard things like this before, concerning European views of America. I know this is very weak tea sourcing, hardly better than “people are saying,” but if nothing else it is a reminder that, while Americans think themselves the center of the universe (or at least of the world) and the measure of all things, other countries (you know, like those happiest nations discussed in this post) see the US very differently.
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