The Hate and Anti-Intellectualism of the Modern Democratic Party
By Fletch Daniels, November 22, 2019

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/the_hate_and_antiintellectualism_of_the_modern_democratic_party.html

Bill Maher recently played the role of a broken clock and stumbled upon a truth. He noted that America is potentially heading toward a civil war due to rising anger on both sides of the political aisle.

This is a true sentiment, although he misdiagnoses the cause and effect. Runaway hate, growing violence, and anti-American extremism on the Left have triggered a rise in righteous anger on the right.

Should President Donald Trump win re-election in 2020, everyone paying attention believes that this will serve as a triggering event that will result in a serious spasm of violence.

Maher immediately followed up his call for ramping back the incendiary language that now defines the political discourse by calling Republicans the equivalent of hate-filled anti-intellectuals. His idea of offering understanding of Republicans is to say that they are even more hateful than stupid, people to perhaps be pitied instead of despised.

"I'm going to try to stop because I have learned that the anti-intellectualism on the right doesn't come primarily through stupidity," said Maher. "It comes from hate." He concluded by throwing around the usual leftist language of pretending that somehow President Trump is uniquely tyrannical.

A hate-filled moron is always going to be a hate-filled moron. Maher just proves that point in his world-class exercise in projection.



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