What counts today isn’t engaging the other side with reasoned arguments; it’s building a rabid fan base by demonizing the other side and stoking the audience’s collective sense of outrage and victimization. And that’s a job best performed not by serious thinkers but by hacks and hucksters. Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Joseph Farah, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin: they adorn the cathedral of conservatism like so many gargoyles.
— Chris Hedges
“stoking the audience’s collective sense of outrage and victimization” No one does that more than Presidemt Obama, blessed be his name, and the demagogues.., I mean democrats!! You obviously never listen to any of the”gargoyles” you mention or you would know that what you say is untrue, assuming you even care about the truth which based on your comments is a stretch.
I do find it a bit interesting that Chris “American Fascists” Hedges would make such a reasonable appeal to end the demonization of the other side. A quote about pots and kettles springs to mind.
There is a remarkable lack of symmetry in his examples.