Recently I had to banish our remaining troll (who I strongly suspect was a sock-puppet of another troll) because the cartoonish parodies of actual insight it offered had become tedious.
Such nonsense is sadly all too common on the left these days.
The troll's last act of defiant stupidity was to insist that Antifa does not actually exist, and also to ask for specific links of minority-owned businesses damaged by Democrat-sponsored riots.
This willful dishonesty is what precludes any kind of intelligent politics.
Antifa is of course real, it has adherents, "liberated zones," and a number of partisans who boast of their strength. It cannot be "legitimate protest" and also "a bugbear of the right."
Similarly, one can't keep going on about "mostly peaceful protests" and ignore the massive physical destruction they caused.
The media is now openly into Goebbels mode, pushing Big Lie after Big Lie, completely indifferent to the contradictions in their statements. Similarly, Democrat politicians and their corrupt public health allies want to simultaneously emphasize the need for eternal lockdowns, but then make bogus exceptions ("racism is woth the risk").
Right now there is chatter hyping the growing number of "cases," by which they mean people who test positive for the Wuhan Virus. This is meaningless. There are a number of viruses that have almost universal spread, such as the herpes variant that gives one "cold sores." None of these would justify an economic shutdown of indefinite length.
The reason for the shutdown was to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed by sick patients. That risk has disappeared. Not only has the case load dropped, capacity has been increased in case there is a surge. Responsible, non-partisan scientists would point this out.
But science also must serve The Party, so whatever The Party requires is now the new science.
All of this renders normal politics impossible. I don't think the left understands that what comes next will be beyond the ability of their twitter accounts to control.
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