Submission + - The Ideology of Demonification (politico.com)
In the Slashdot article, Dick Cheney, Powerful Former VP, Dies at 84, it is filled with comments like,
Even after a heart transplant, he was still heartless.
or
Luckily, reliable sources assure me that he will be greeted as a liberator in hell; so things should go fine.
One of my memories of my other was calling Bush, the "Anti-christ." One of my questions for Slashdotters here is, when you're calling people the worst thing you can, do you think it eventually leads to other people to stop listening.
If Cheney and Bush JR were the devil to you, does that mean empirically, Trump can't be any worse because you already used your worst words? Was Obama in on this evil if he was friends with the Bush's?
Normal conservatives do consider Trump a threat to Democracy. But I feel like t he Democratic party has turned into the "boy who cried wolf" where no one will listen and for good reason.... using the worst words they can think of just because they don't like the people on the other side.
Cheney was a normal person, who made his own mistakes. He had his own personality trains that helped to make him a target for hate. But does the hate help the conversation, or water it down on what's important for America. Hate is not he same as disagreement. People make mistakes as we are all human.