Have you ever read an online article, then scanned through the comments posted by random persons in response?
Unfortunately, civility is not in play in the cyber world. I would imagine that many of the comment posters would never dare say the horrible things to the writer in person, but there seems to be safety in anonymity.
I happened to read this post from Michelle today. The article was basically her celebration of the misbehavior of Americans throughout the country who are moving the barricades (aka "Barrycades") aside and taking in the national parks and monuments in spite of all the park rangers who have been deployed by the White House to stop them.
Sure I think it's pretty cool that Americans are defying the President to send a message that he won't be allowed to suppress Americans from seeing their own parks. So a decent story that helps people like me feel a little better about the current state of our out-of-control government. Otherwise, I would say I'm generally neither a rabid Malkin fan nor a Malkin hater. My hat's off to her for turning her blog into such a huge success. That's all fine with me.
But check out the trolls who posted their hateful comments.
Did they try to deny any of the information in the story? Nope.
Did they make an argument in favor of barricading all of our national parks during the shutdown so people can feel the pain and demand their congress cave into Obama and give him everything he demands so his budget is fully funded? Not a word.
I'll characterize the Leftist commenters by cleaning up their language a bit. Let's see, the points being made are pretty much:
Michelle's Ugly and Stupid. We can't believe anyone with half a brain even reads her stuff.
I've heard it said that you know when you've won an argument when the other side starts making snarky personal attacks. This time they skipped the argument entirely and went straight to the snarky personal attacks.
Yep, that's the state of reasoned debate in our country these days. Somebody writes an article from a right-of-center perspective, and rather than take on the writer of the article on its merits, the Left decides to dredge up the good old standby attacks. You're fat, you're stupid, you're ugly, you're a right-wing extremist, you're a member of the flat-earth society, you're a racist, you hate women, you and your friends want to starve children and take healthcare away from Grandma.
It's really getting old, liberals. Can you at least come up with some new accusations to change things up a bit?
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