I hate the term "these people" some of "these people" meet some of your criteria but not all. You would likely place me in the category of "these people" because I believe social media favors the left side of arguments. I believe in a fair an open internet, let ideas be shared and stop censoring. Every group is a hypocrite, but everyone feels justified in their hypocrisy. It would go a long way if we stopped dividing each other up into camps.
I agree with this, free enterprise is amazing. A company should be free to set the standards of the service they provide. But I also believe that Standard Oil needed to be broken up and Microsoft needed to be reined in. I believe we all feel the need to exercise some degree of oversight on these giant corporations. Not long ago there was a lot of discussion about Hobby Lobby and its fight against some of the healthcare regulations passed by President Obama. Issues are always more nuanced than the internet makes them appear. I believe there is plenty of divisiveness on both sides, it doesn't take much to find examples of both. That is kind of my point, we are feeding a monster and don't seem to realize it.
Not to put words in the parent comment's mouth, but I would guess he mans "these people" = leaders of the Republic party, primarily Trump and McConnell. Many other Republican leaders and I assume most conservative voters still have morals, right and wrong, etc, but it's those two at the top and a handful of others in power that have made the Republic party's actions amoral and power-centric.
Pots ok. But is McConnell is elected among equals. He can be removed? The rest of republican leaders, party and voters to them (and pots) cannot be totally spare. At least not in the next cycle. If they are both re-elected (McConnell is “re-elected” everyday in a sense).
> I hate the term "these people" some of "these people" meet some of your criteria but not all.
I used "these people" to refer to the people that are not like the ones I described in my first paragraph. There are certainly those on the left and right who are decent, moral people. Would it have helped if instead of "these people" I'd said "people not like that?" Those are basically equivalent in terms of what I intended to say.
> You would likely place me in the category of "these people" because I believe social media favors the left side of arguments.
No, I think you're jumping to a conclusion that I was referring to conservatives or those on the right as a whole but nowhere in my text did I do that. I said "Trump (and many in the GOP)". I didn't make any mention of the right. There are many conservatives and people on the right who are not Republicans and I explicitly noted that there are Republicans for whom my claim doesn't apply.
I can understand being sensitive to this issue since it's hard being a conservative in progressive circles these days, but I don't think it's reasonable to construe that my comment applied to you.
> I believe in a fair an open internet, let ideas be shared and stop censoring.
I didn't state any opinion for or against what Twitter did or how Trump reacted.
The Right used to abhor postmodernism, and were properly mocked by the Left whenever they whinged about it.
Now the Right have embraced postmodernism, and the Left have no idea how to respond.
TV news corporations know how to respond, and they've done the same thing for five years now. They keep him (or his empty lectern) on TV as much as they possibly can. Ratings gold!
